Autumn Stuff

Saw Oscar Qualifying Animation and Live Action Shorts Showcase Screener.

Beyond silence –
PhD students shares with the education counselor how she has been harassed and raped. She can’t speak and has to write and use an interpreter – three women in a room. The head counsellor is factual that nothing can be done since no evidence and later she herself cracks open in silence.

Shimmer –
this lucia and matias made me go back to days when my dad used to get crazy as my bro used to cry and then used to exclaim and yell how – he will take him to the poor – alley road where you can become a poor beggar on street. he used to pull him as a child…but as a teenager that time I used to gather courage as I do now too – and be with my brother. Even though as he dropped us on street – and later within five minutes sat us again on bike and came back home. I did not forget how assholish behaviour he can get into. This movie took me back there and made me cry a little.
Although my father doesn’t behave as such with him anymore. We often do get in fights still. But ultimately, yeah, he is my dad and I love him and obviously I have daddy issues. and I am bruised as the eldest daughter. But I rebel often and definitely make my opinion heard. and I am very proud of myself for that! It definitely struck a cord with me…

about this short on their shorts website –
Shimmer is a film about a father and a daughter with too much hubris and too little grace for one another entrenched in a struggle that will tear them apart. It’s about repentance and understanding that come too late to fix what’s been steadily eroded by neglect.

It’s also a risky venture for an independent studio from a country that’s still trying to find its footing in the worldwide animation industry.

Transferable –
Okay. This kinda broke me. Each room in the hospital has stories of sacrifices. The husband keeps checkin for volunteers so his wife with oxygen mask – ill – can get some help. Has two kids. Long time spent inside there. Over it all! A robot arrives where the illness wife had – could be transferred to the husband within a min and then the wife is all healthy and find. But in all this – husband is no more – the blanket is curtains all his body and we see a sacrifice here to keep something alive. The wife doesn’t feel victorious at all – but welcomes her kids in her arms. You see the duality of how everything life stuff works.
The camera pans us out through the corridor and there we see pictures walled up through the corridor naming everyone who went down to keep something alive.
ICU handholding always breaks me!

The Pearl Comb –
Okay! So, husband is nursing his wife in 17th century span. He goes out with his dog to get leaves and help in her treatment. This guy ventures out to not return home one day and this wife gets out to find him in some shelter. He might have had drunk and slept there – and he shares a story with her of he finding a mermaid and then she giving him a comb and granting his wishes knowing how unselfish he is. However, she demands him to come to her in nine years span. It is kinda witchy + med special mix of the late years gone. Something magical etc! Miracles are needed without any questions and science keep on questioning such occult like stuff. I would say it is kinda witchy movie. Later, this wife gets to keep the boon which her husband received with the comb and she had trapped this mermaid in her house – to study her! but this mermaid needs some offerings “a human” after every nine years span.

Butterfly on the wheel –
Young musician – getting the revived energy and starts facing his truth. Plays in front of thousands which he hasn’t been doing at all. While he plays piano in the hall all by himself – a peer of his sees him play and says how good he plays etc. The lead’s brother is full on supportive and always there for him. With the lead’s inhibitions and everyone telling him to get over it – at dinner he finally slams the plate and yells up making the peer girl at dinner feel sorry. Regretting, next day he chooses to venture somewhere and comes back after few months after facing his fears and anxiety. Fear is like shadow keeping him away from light.
He comes back and is a totally different person. His journey from playing piano as a child in his grandmother’s lap to playing in front of hundreds is a great one.