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38 February 9, 2017
film Salute your shorts
15 Oscar noms coming to a theater near you by Michael J. Casey
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t’s Oscar season at the movies and tion has been trying to create the illuthat means celebrating the cinesion of reality and with the recent develmatic high-water marks that 2016 opments Pixar has made, that dream is brought. And with 62 nominated quickly becoming reality. films to choose from, there is But animation needn’t simply be the ample opportunity to discover somerecreation of reality; it can also capture thing new for everyone. the viscerality of an experience. That More often than not, the movies can be found in both Blind Vaysha, an that get nominated in the top five cateimpressionistic hand-drawn animation gories — picture, director, actor, actress about a girl who has one eye that sees and screenplay — are the movies that the past and the other eye that sees the garnered festifuture, and Pear val buzz, posiCider and tive critical Cigarettes, a reception and a blocky and healthy box stylish office throughRaymond out the year. ChandlerAdd to that the esque story slew of award about how far a shows that friend will go occur between for another. the Golden Both of these Globes and the Silent Nights follows a Danish Red Cross worker shorts tell their who falls in love with a Ghanaian refugee. Oscars, all of tales remarkwhich feature ably well. the same familiar titles, and the possibil- Considering how widely disparate the ity of prestige fatigue can bog even the stories and the styles are, this group of hardiest of moviegoers down. That’s animation nominations shows just how where the shorts come in. Here are 15 versatile the medium can be. examples of experimentation, personaliLive Action ty and energy that few have had a chance to see. And thankfully, all are Ennemis Intérieurs (d. Sélim Aazzazi, coming to a theater near you. France, 28 minutes) Animation La Femme et le TGV (d. Timo von Gunten, Switzerland, 30 minutes) Blind Vaysha (d. Theodore Ushev, Silent Nights (d. Aske Bang, Denmark, Canada, 8 minutes) 30 minutes) Borrowed Time (d. Andrew Coats and Sing (d. Kristof Deák, Hungary, 25 Lou Hamou-Lhadj, U.S.A., 7 minutes) minutes) Pear Cider and Cigarettes (d. Robert Timecode (d. Juanjo Giménez Peña, Valley, Canada and U.K., 35 minutes) Spain, 15 minutes) Pearl (d. Patrick Osborne, U.S.A., 6 minutes) Sometimes, shorts become features. Piper (d. Alan Barillo, U.S.A., 6 minDamien Chazelle’s 2013 short, utes) Whiplash, became the 2014 feature that garnering six Oscar nominations that Of the five nominations, the most year. The same might happen to one of impressive is also the one most familiar these lucky five, but the beauty of at to audiences: Piper, the Pixar short that least three of them is that they are no played in front of Finding Dory this past longer or shorter than they need to be summer. While the story is pleasing — to tell their tale. a baby sandpiper discovers a new way to The two best are Silent Nights and Timecode. The latter is a fun and silly hunt for clams — it’s the photorealistic animation of the sand, surf and sky that story about two security guards courting make this short of particular note. Ever each other through dance moves and an since the days of Walt Disney, animaelaborate security camera system. Boulder Weekly