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Steven Prescod and Robert Taronga (a blind and deaf actor) in the Oscar-nominated short film âFeeling Through.â
Courtesy photo
By Alice Reese
Herald-Banner Contributor Apr 24, 2021
5 hrs ago
Steven Prescod and Robert Taronga (a blind and deaf actor) in the Oscar-nominated short film âFeeling Through.â Courtesy photo
The following excellent short films are nominated for Oscars at the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday, April 25.
FEELING THROUGH
(Live Action Short)
Tareek (Steven Prescod), who remains homeless during a chilly late night in New York City, desperately texts various friends asking for a place to spend the night.
As he moves around the city, Tareek encounters Artie (Robert Taronga), who manages to communicate his need to catch a bus. Artie, it seems, is deaf and also blind.Tarek, who had been so self-centered earlier, becomes involved in the complex
This year’s five Oscar-nominated live action shorts are strong, disturbing and concise (the longest is 45 minutes). Among the issues they explore are law and order, immigration and interracial relations.
“Two Distant Strangers” examines police brutality and the African-American’s nightmarish anxiety that he will inevitably encounter it. “Feeling Through” explores the unlikely bond between a Black homeless teenager and a deaf and blind white man. “The Letter Room,” centers on the ambivalent experiences of a correctional officer whose duties in the prison’s mail room entail reading letters to and from death row inmates.
The other two films, “White Eye” and “The Present” were made by an Israeli and a Palestinian director, respectively, and they delve into complex moral issues that characterize a region awash in anguish and ambiguity.
SHORTS TV
As we prepare for the upcoming
Academy Awards, one category or, to be precise, three categories that are easy to gloss over are the short films. This is because most of us simply haven’t seen or even heard of them. SHORTS TV has made a laudable effort to change this, and the 2
021 Oscar Nominated Shorts can be viewed in theaters and online mostly online this year, if we are being honest.
As a filmmaker in addition to being a film critic, I’m most prolific in the area of making short films because they are easier to get made at a high quality and on a low budget. But as someone who grew up on
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