{"id":421415,"date":"2022-03-25T16:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:30:16","slug":"watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dbe34c5733\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dbe34c5733\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982022_Oscar-Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982022_Oscar-Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2022-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982022_Oscar-Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982022_Oscar-Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;2022 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Chances are, you landed on this review because you\u2019re trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> your Oscar pool, looking for a clue as to what will win the always-underseen shorts categories \u2014 in a year when they were unceremoniously booted from the telecast, no less. Well, if it\u2019s predictions you\u2019re looking for, there\u2019s little contest among this year\u2019s cartoon contenders: Academy favorite Aardman Animations has delivered a delightful frontrunner in \u201cRobin Robin.\u201d But don\u2019t stop reading there! In an unusually adult-leaning year, the traditionally kid-friendly category is well worth watching in its entirety, whether in theaters or on demand, thanks to stalwart distributor ShortsTV.<\/p>\n<p>The program opens with \u201cRobin Robin,\u201d which seems poised to earn Aardman its fifth Oscar (the other four were all won by Nick Park, creator of the Wallace and Gromit characters). This half-hour Christmas musical was hatched by Dan Ojari and Mikey Please, who joined the Bristol-based studio for the express purpose of co-directing this Netflix holiday special, about a clumsy baby bird (Bronte Carmichael) raised by a family of far-more-agile mice who\u2019s determined to prove that she can sneak as well as the rest of them. Along the way, she teams up with Magpie (Richard E. Grant, terrific) and does her best to evade a menacing Cat (Gillian Anderson, still sounding like Margaret Thatcher), which is all quite adorable, whether you\u2019re six or 60. The rhyming <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> and character designs recall \u201cThe Gruffalo\u201d as much as anything Aardman has created, and the material itself \u2014 needle-felting, rather than sculpted plasticine figures \u2014 gives everything a wonderful tactile quality.<\/p>\n<p>The next four shorts aren\u2019t really for kids at all, which marks a welcome change for the category. Russian animator Anton Dyakov\u2019s hand-drawn \u201cBoxballet\u201d brings together two opposites \u2014 battered prizefighter Evgeny and dainty dancer Olya \u2014 in a rather cynical romance, one in which the pair must endure all manner of moral compromise in order to be together, just as the Soviet Union is collapsing around them. In the studio, she\u2019s harassed by a pot-bellied Svengali; in the ring, he\u2019s beaten to a bloody pulp after refusing to cheat. (\u201cDumbass!\u201d his trainer huffs in the film\u2019s only intelligible line of dialogue.) It\u2019s an ugly story, both visually and in such details, though it\u2019s not without humor or a certain sweetness in the rugged characters\u2019 moments of wordless connection. Then as now, Russia runs on corruption, and this highly stylized short stares that reality head-on, while showing optimism for a future (now past) this odd couple will face together.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to love Britain-based veteran Joanna Quinn\u2019s \u201cAffairs of the Art,\u201d another hand-drawn entry whose pleasures derive from its loose style (Quinn lets her sketch work show in the finished film), expressive characters and irreverent sense of humor. The project picks up where things left off with Beryl, the lively working-class woman she introduced 35 years ago in \u201cGirls Night Out.\u201d Here, Beryl\u2019s determined to be an artist, enlisting her husband for an amateur version of Marcel Duchamp\u2019s \u201cNude Descending a Staircase,\u201d while gossiping about her various good-for-nothing relatives \u2014 like Aunt Bev, who moved to California, married well and now practices \u201cbody sculpting.\u201d The result has personality to burn, embracing violence, sexuality and an all-around kind of insouciance that rivals fellow doodler Bill Plympton. There\u2019s a Disney cuteness to her aesthetic, though Quinn\u2019s independent as they come.<\/p>\n<p>By far the most disturbing of the bunch \u2014 but only because twisted Taiwanese horror short \u201cThe Night Bus\u201d (Joe Hsieh\u2019s Sundance-winning entry) wasn\u2019t nominated \u2014 Chilean director Hugo Covarrubias\u2019 \u201cBestia\u201d takes some time to unpack. It also benefits from a second viewing, for those who can stomach it. This chilling portrait of evil clearly relates to the country\u2019s still unresolved political history under Pinochet, though hardly anyone knows the woman who inspired it, Ingrid Older\u00f6ck, going in. She was the tool of a corrupt regime \u2014 depicted here as a blank-faced porcelain figure in a disconcerting stop-motion world \u2014 though Covarrubias is slow to reveal her role (as a torturer of female prisoners), and even then, he leaves much of it to our imaginations (Ingrid\u2019s dog Volodia was trained to sexually assault these captives in the basement of a nondescript house known as \u201cLa Venda Sexy\u201d). The film takes us inside Ingrid\u2019s head, literally, where fantasies and fears leave lasting impressions on us as well.<\/p>\n<p>While it seems unlikely to win, the best of the lot \u2014 the nominee most likely to change the medium itself \u2014 hails from Alberto Mielgo, the visionary artist behind \u201cThe Witness\u201d entry of Netflix\u2019s \u201cLove Death + Robots\u201d anthology <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>, whose early, way-outside-the-box design work on \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d set the revolutionary look of that film. His short, \u201cThe Windshield Wiper,\u201d centers around a universal-enough question, \u201cWhat is love?\u201d and splinters out in a dozen different directions. Drawn from a mix of personal experience and observation, the 14-minute everything-everywhere-all-at-once assembly \u2014 a raw medley of heartbreak and yearning, rendered in luminous 3D animation \u2014 operates according to the visual vocabulary of movie trailers and TV commercials, efficiently paring larger stories down to key moments: a couple sits on the beach, sharing a cigarette; an ideally matched tattooed guy and Goth woman are so busy swiping through a dating app that they fail to notice one another IRL, even standing side by side at the grocery store; an elderly couple look out at a beautiful horizon, comfortable in one another\u2019s silence.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since \u201cUp,\u201d animators have been trying to capture the emotional power of that film\u2019s relationship-spanning montage. Most simply try to imitate what Pixar did there, but Mielgo makes it his own, mining his relationship history for answers. The film takes us inside his brain, processing all the contradictory feelings in the world around that add up to \u201clove.\u201d It\u2019s impossibly ambitious \u2014 ostensibly the reason an artist like Charlie Kaufman got into animation in the first place, because it can access this potential \u2014 tackling everything from tentative, vulnerable early text message conversations to the pain of outliving one\u2019s soulmate. With each cut, \u201cThe Windshield Wiper\u201d makes another connection about, well, human connection.<\/p>\n<p>Nota bene: Only one animated short impressed me more last year, French director Bastien Dubois\u2019s shortlisted \u201cSouvenir Souvenir\u201d (not included, since ShortsTV skipped the \u201cHighly Commended\u201d bonus offerings this time around). Like <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-nominated feature \u201cFlee,\u201d Dubois\u2019 self-reflexive project expands the potential of the animated and nonfiction formats alike, focusing on his grandfather\u2019s service in the Algerian War, while addressing universal issues of PTSD, guilt and how subsequent generations process the sins of their elders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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