I really wanted to give a little bit of space in my coverage of the
2021 Sundance Film Festival to short films, being prolific in the medium myself and knowing that they are an important part of the festival, but one that receives a good deal less attention than the major features. But if I’m being honest, I’ve been very underwhelmed by most of what I’ve seen, and there have been a couple that I’ve genuinely hated (though I refrain from mentioning the titles of any of them, including the obnoxious and overhyped animated from
Sara Hirner and
A scene from GNT. (Screenshot: GNT/Sundance)
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GNT’s meant to hit home with its short and filthy story about the perils of being a person living in the age of ad-ridden social media.
Blessedly, Aussie duo Sara Hirner and Rosemary Vasquez-Brown’s film steers clear of making any sort of glib commentary about the covid-19 pandemic, and instead fixes its focus a bit farther into the past to a seemingly simpler time when one of the more popular topics of conversation were people’s hygiene habits, or lack thereof. When you’re introduced to
Today, we have an exciting announcement here at Rotoscopers. This Thursday, January 28th, begins the annual Sundance Film Festival, which normally takes place in Park City, Utah. However, this year, the festival is taking place virtually via an online festival. To celebrate the festival, we are interviewing as many of the animators, both for shorts and features, as we possibly can.
This year, at the festiva,l there are nine shorts and two features, e.g., one documentary and one dramatic feature.
Features
Cryptozoo – directed by Dash Shaw who previously created
My Entire High School is Sinking into the Sea. This film tells the story of a couple that stumble upon a zoo of cryptids or unicorns.
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