Morbid Afternoon
An afternoon of death and comedy, featuring corpses that don’t fit in coffins, suicidal furries, numerous ill-fated rabbits, and Hitler at the 1948 Olympics.
International Animation 1
A good selection here (better overall quality than the McLaren selection).
Animated miscellany
Just trying to make sense of my notes on the short animated films (I’m trying not to type ‘animated shorts’) from the first selection up for the McLaren Award (the award is for best British animation, and (but?) is voted for by the EIFF audience, which in this case was distinctly small). Mostly I’m getting [...]
Last day!
You can probably tell that I’m flagging, right? I couldn’t think of anything to write about the World Animation 2 selection, and by the time I got through today’s four films, I was only able to write about two of them. Oops…
Getting animated
Ah, Pixar. Doesn’t that make you grin, just thinking about it?
McLaren Animation 1
Mixed reactions. The films shown in this selection where all very short, which I prefer – more for your money, but unfortunately means that it’s harder to pick out highlights.
World Animation 1
Not a bad start to my festival, but not an entirely auspicious one either – a fair amount of pretension, topped and tailed by more entertaining stuff.