SXSW 2022: ANIMATED SHORTS

Here are some thoughts on the animated program.

Bestia

This is a dark look at the secret life of a secret police agent in Chile during a military dictatorship. She is drawn with waxy doll-like features, she makes visits to a house with unexplained dead bodies. She does unspeakable acts with her dog.

Weird but worth seeing.
  

Tennis Ball On His Day Off

Funny, unique, inventive, happy

Angakuksajaujuq-The Shaman’s Apprentice 

A young Inuit girl is an apprentice to her grandmother, the tribe healer. She must learn to be brave as she makes a trip to the underworld to attempt to find the source of a tribe member’s illness.

This is lovely and lyrical.

Anxious Body

Fun times with adhesive tape.


Steakhouse 

After a wife bears the brunt of her husband’s rage, she gets some pay back.

Satisfying. 


Wet

Strange world where everyone is fat, happy, and in the pool.

What’s not to like? 

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