{"id":611262,"date":"2024-03-04T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:30:08","slug":"watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;2024 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-6a3d7e9e40051\" 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-6a3d7e9e40051\" 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-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2024 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-2024-oscar-nominated-short-films-animation-review\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;2024 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%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;2024 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%982024_Oscar_Nominated_Short_Films_Animation_Review%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;2024 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    Short subjects willing to tackle tough subjects made the final cut with the Academy this year. That means audiences buying tickets to the \u201c2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animation\u201d program should brace themselves for poetic treatments of uncomfortable topics, ranging from incest to the Holocaust. Since the toon shorts tend to run short (just an hour to get through the noms), ShortsTV\u2019s theatrical roster includes two additional \u201chighly commended\u201d titles, ending on a musical up note with \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d co-director John Musker\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m Hip.\u201d (Conspicuously absent from both the ballot and the show is Disney\u2019s centennial \u201cOnce Upon a Studio,\u201d featuring most of Mickey\u2019s extended family.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Hailing from Iran, Yegane Moghaddam\u2019s \u201cOur Uniform\u201d finds a fitting style for a sartorial commentary: Using clothing as her canvas, the young director recalls how it felt to grow up in a country where girls were required to wear the hijab, or headscarves. She creatively experiments with various techniques, manipulating garments to suggest motion and drawing directly onto different fabrics (as when a sweatshirt unzips to reveal the thoughts inside a young girl\u2019s head). What strikes one person as funny may seem sad to others, as she contrasts the strict dress codes of her home country with the varied colors and styles worn by Westerners. In America, graduates of Catholic schools may find the restrictive behavior reminiscent of their own uniforms. Buttons and pins double as props, as Moghaddam makes the case that one\u2019s choice in clothes is a vital means of expression, the limiting of which amounts to oppression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As 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>ens, Israeli director Tal Kantor\u2019s \u201cLetter to a Pig\u201d also refers back to classroom memories from its own helmer\u2019s childhood, except in this case, the film deals with a student\u2019s response to hearing from a Holocaust survivor named Haim. Using a nearly monochromatic mix of black ink and photographic stills, Kantor imagines the moment when Haim escaped a group of Nazis by hiding in a pigsty. Looking back, the Jewish man appreciates that this non-kosher animal saved his life, though his story sparks laughs from some students (just as watching \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d reportedly did in its time). The 16-minute short shows how the incident \u2014 as well as reactions by her peers \u2014 marks a girl named Alma, expanding into something nightmarish as Haim\u2019s memory takes hold in her own imagination. \u201cLetter\u201d works on an expressionistic level, as opposed to a logical one, imprinting itself on audiences for them to process and personalize as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cPachyderme\u201d does something similar, exploring how the mind processes and suppresses childhood trauma, though the full-color, seemingly hand-painted style could hardly be more different from the stark visions of \u201cLetter to a Pig.\u201d Visually, St\u00e9phanie Clement seems to be inspired by the comforting drawings of preschool picture books, suggesting amid the golden memories \u2014 a redheaded girl recalls visits to her grandparents\u2019 house in the country \u2014 that a threat could be lurking just off-screen. The narrator recalls monstrous eyes staring back at her from the knots in her ceiling, but can find nowhere to hide. Her memory has buried whatever inappropriate behavior she suffered, though she acutely recalls the way such abuse made her feel, as the short shows the girl trying to blend into the wallpaper or imagining herself washed away underwater. It\u2019s an evocative use of animation, though the naive style proves an odd match for the hindsight-centric narration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A playfully profound twist on vintage Disney educational shorts, \u201cNinety-Five Senses\u201d boasts an appealing mix of animation styles \u2014 which was not-so-secretly the project\u2019s <em>raison d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em>. Two decades after \u201cNapoleon Dynamite,\u201d co-directors Jerusha and Jared Hess hatched the project as a way to showcase a handful of emerging filmmakers, who each contribute a different sequence. Voicing an affable old Death Row inmate named Coy, Tim Blake Nelson ladles his Southern-fried twang over everything like so much gravy, his folksy narration providing continuity across a range of distinctive yet complementary visual approaches. Coy claims never to have used a cell phone. It takes a while for the reason to come out: He\u2019s spent most of his life behind bars. By the time we discover the source of this condemned man\u2019s remorse, it\u2019s virtually impossible not to be charmed by his colorful way of looking at \u2014 and feeling, touching, smelling and tasting \u2014 the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Two soldiers on opposite sides of battle play an implausible <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of chess, communicating each move via carrier pigeon in \u201cWar Is Over: Inspired by the Music of John &amp; Yoko.\u201d Hatched by Sean Ono Lennon as a novel way to deliver his parents\u2019 message, this glossy computer-generated short looks far more polished than the competition, but makes hardly any sense. How did the two chess rivals start their game? Ordered into combat by their respective commanders, they refuse to kill one another on the field. Cue the song \u201cHappy Xmas (War is Over),\u201d and suddenly everyone is throwing down their weapons. But is it Christmas? The Lennon connection attracted all kinds of high-profile collaborators, from director Dave Mullins (Oscar nominated for \u201cLou\u201d) to Peter Jackson, who put Weta to work on the project. With John and Yoko, love made peace possible. Cartoon pigeons don\u2019t carry nearly the same power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Rather than leave audiences on that awkward note, the ShortsTV program includes two bonus shorts. The first is even more heavy-handedly issue-oriented than Ono Lennon\u2019s birdbrained peace protest. Co-directors Karni Arieli and Saul Freed\u2019s photoreal, computer-generated \u201cWild Summon\u201d traces the life cycle of a female salmon, depicted not as a fish but a creepy humanlike water creature with bloated lips and tiny diving mask. A woeful-sounding Marianne Faithful describes all the threats to the species. It\u2019s grim, gross and weirdly misjudged: Replacing the fish with freaky-looking water-people is an anthropomorphic step too far, implying that salmon eaters are unfeeling cannibals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Luckily, the show wraps with a more upbeat offering from animation legend John Musker, who didn\u2019t let his Disney retirement keep him from making a retro-styled toon (\u201chand-drawn,\u201d with help from digital tools). Winking at what it\u2019s like to feel out of step with the latest trends, \u201cI\u2019m Hip\u201d is set to a jazzy old parody song by Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough, as a cool cat sporting indoor shades and a pork pie hat tries to convince the world he\u2019s still got it. Meanwhile, Musker packs each scene with visual jokes to the contrary. The short feels oddly out of sync with the moment, but brings some much-needed laughs to a somber program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\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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