{"id":558745,"date":"2023-03-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-2023-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T17:30:00","slug":"watch-2023-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2023-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;2023 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-6a3dcbe6e8469\" 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-6a3dcbe6e8469\" 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-2023-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982023_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2023 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-2023-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982023_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982023_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2023 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%982023_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation&#8217; Review&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    On Oscar night, \u201cGuillermo del Toro\u2019s Pinocchio\u201d will almost certainly win the Academy Award for feature animation. For many of those following along at home, it will look as though the director of \u201cPan\u2019s Labyrinth\u201d and \u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d is being rewarded for some kind of secondary passion, as if del Toro had scaled Everest and then set his sights on a smaller peak on which to plant his flag. But that\u2019s not how it h<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\">app<\/a>ened at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Way back in Mexico, del Toro started his filmmaking career doing animated shorts: Obsessed with Ray Harryhausen, the amateur future auteur built rudimentary armatures, painstakingly repositioning the puppets one frame at a time. Decades later, once established in Hollywood, del Toro accepted a side gig at DreamWorks Animation, serving as a story consultant on films such as \u201cMegamind\u201d and \u201cKung Fu Panda 2\u201d as a pretext for teaching himself the trade. With \u201cPinocchio,\u201d he put those lessons to work on a stop-motion passion project that\u2019s every bit as challenging as his most impressive films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    All this to say, animation may be a craft apart from live action, but it\u2019s no ghetto, as this year\u2019s formidable \u201c2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation\u201d showcase attests. (In an era of computer-enhanced Marvel <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> and performance-capture \u201cAvatar\u201d sequels, the line isn\u2019t so clear anymore, anyhow.) All five nominees are strong, and at least one is an instant classic, destined to be loved and shared for decades to come. The selection is substantial enough that ShortsTV \u2014 the company that packages the finalists for theatrical release each year \u2014 didn\u2019t need to flesh it out with bonus offerings. There\u2019s not a rotten toon in the bunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The program opens with a Student Academy Award winner, \u201cAn Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It,\u201d which sounds like the title of a book you\u2019d expect to find on \u201cReading Rainbow,\u201d but is in fact a stop-motion experiment with an existential twist. Taking a page from the classic Looney Tunes cartoon \u201cDuck Amuck,\u201d in which Daffy dodges the artist\u2019s pencil, Australian director Lachlan Pendragon plays the godlike figure terrorizing a hapless 10-inch salesman named Neil, who\u2019s beginning to suspect that he\u2019s just a puppet in some bizarre project. The poor chap develops a \u201cMatrix\u201d-like complex as the greenscreen backgrounds blink and his co-workers\u2019 3D-printed faces fall off. While it doesn\u2019t exactly go deep, one can imagine Charlie Kaufman watching the well-executed short and kicking himself for not trying a few of the fourth-wall-breaking meta gags in \u201cAnomalisa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Speaking of \u201cReading Rainbow,\u201d Jo\u00e3o Gonzalez\u2019s hand-drawn \u201cIce Merchants\u201d has the rich, colored-pencil look of a beloved picture book (and a story vaguely reminiscent of Esphyr Slobodkina\u2019s \u201cCaps for Sale\u201d). The Portuguese animator also wrote the music for the short, a lovely melody that takes the place of dialogue as we observe a father and his son, who live high above town in a house precariously attached to a vertiginous cliff. It\u2019s so cold up there that their water turns to ice, which they chip into cubes and sell to the villagers down below, parachuting down each day and rappelling back up (this part\u2019s a little unclear). One day, things go wrong, and the short provides first a mama ex machina and then a soft landing, cushioned by a million hats. It may not make sense, but it\u2019s plenty satisfying all the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    No less surreal is Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby\u2019s seven-minute \u201cThe Flying Sailor,\u201d which is based on the rather incredible true story of the Halifax Explosion of 1917, which blew a man more than 2 kilometers through the air. The Canadian co-directors (who were nominated for three other shorts before this one) show the fella, his clothes knocked clean off, cartwheeling through the air \u2014 and all the way up into space \u2014 as his life flashes before his eyes. It\u2019s not clear why the film was commissioned, but hats off to the National Film Board of Canada for being a world leader in its support of independent animation artists. No country does more to encourage art for art\u2019s sake in the painstaking field (though anthology shows like \u201cLove Death + Robots\u201d and \u201cCake\u201d are giving fellow weirdos a pretty cool platform in the States).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The true pearl of this year\u2019s collection is \u201cThe Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse.\u201d Beautifully adapted from British illustrator Charlie Mackesy\u2019s international bestseller, the half-hour marvel feels like \u201cThe Little Prince\u201d for a new generation. Those who know the book \u2014 a \u201cJonathan Livingston Seagull\u201d-esque life preserver for many during the pandemic \u2014 will appreciate how the team managed to translate Mackesy\u2019s unique ink-and-watercolor style, with its distinctive blend of thick brushstrokes and loose, unfinished lines. Isobel Waller-Bridge\u2019s gentle score coaxes audiences into a receptive place, while the quartet of Jude Coward Nicoll (the Boy), Tom Hollander (the Mole), Idris Elba (the Fox) and Gabriel Byrne (the Horse) lend sincere voice to various affirmational ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cAsking for help isn\u2019t giving up. It\u2019s refusing to give up,\u201d goes one. Timing and tone are everything with such material. Partnering with Mackesy, co-director Peter Baynton (who worked on the hand-drawn segments of \u201cPaddington 2\u201d) keeps the project from veering into cartoony \u201cWinnie the Pooh\u201d territory. Cynics may dismiss what one acquaintance called its \u201cbumper sticker wisdom,\u201d but they miss how vital it is to plant ideas of this nature in the heads of young viewers: boosting their confidence and unpacking what it means to feel lost \u2014 or seen \u2014 before <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> brainwashes them otherwise. I\u2019m reminded of Shel Silverstein\u2019s \u201cThe Giving Tree,\u201d only here, instead of a generous tree giving the boy all its apples, Apple has given us \u201cThe Boy,\u201d and we\u2019re all the better for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If you\u2019re looking for something with a little more edge, the program wraps with the \u201cmature\u201d hand-drawn offering \u201cMy Year of Dicks,\u201d a funny-sad memoir (penned by writer Pamela Ribon) of trying to lose her virginity to a series of less-than-deserving losers in high school. Director Sara Gunnarsd\u00f3ttir takes those stories and turns them into a crude (in all senses) but relatable portrait of teenage insecurity. The very thing that countless man-made movies have treated as a conquest is more of a burden as teenage Pam (voiced by Brie Tilton) repeatedly falls for the wrong guys. The title refers to a succession of jerks, rather than their junk, as its naive narrator attempts to rush through her own \u201cdeflowering\u201d \u2014 an outdated term that feels apt here: With each failed attempt, the film blooms into fresh dimensions, shifting its style to reflect how she adapts to each of her prospects, until such time as she finds herself.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/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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