A consummate sampler platter of the bounty of state-of-the-art animation currently available as alternatives established major-studio house styles.
The plot is pure pulp, inspired in equal parts by the tropes and imagery of film noir, grand opera, and silent melodrama.
Irony is a popular pose struck throughout these shorts.
Is it just us or can the Academy’s infatuation with The Artist be felt even in categories where the film isn’t nominated?
Time and again,Steve James returns to the image of that beautiful young man in handcuffs, being led to and shoved into the back of a police van.
Bill Plympton’s world of fantasy is right on target with that of fellow shock animator Don Hertzfeldt.
Faith, in one way or another, seemed to be on trial frequently at the 30th CIFF.