Animated Short Film with Zombie(s) Nominated for Academy Award
Now that’s a headline you don’t see every day, isn’t it?
True though; one of this year’s nominated Best Animated Short Films has Zombies in it:
Pixar is riding a losing streak, Canada has two films in the running, and the contenders include everything from a bloodthirsty, chicken-chasing zombie to a kindly Humpty Dumpty.
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“A Morning Stroll”
Grant Orchard and Sue GoffeeLoosely based on a six-sentence story collected in the Paul Auster book “True Tales of American Life,” “A Morning Stroll” tells the simplest of tales: A man walks down the street and passes a chicken. The chicken knocks on a nearby door, then goes in when the door is opened.
But the telling – and the retelling – is what counts. The short sets its action in three different time periods, using three dramatically different styles of animation, from line drawings to 3D.
1959 is in black and white, with stick figures. 2009 is vibrant, bright and chaotic. 2059 is a dystopian future vision, with deserted cities apparently populated by zombies, one of whom has an appetite for chicken.
Dystopian? Why, because it has zombies in it?
Or because the one Zombie likes chicken? Unless this piece was written by a rather militant vegan I think that’s discriminatory. Zombies can eat chicken too, so far as we’re concerned!
Honestly, Mr. Steve Pond, can’t a Zombie catch a break?
So, the short features in the various categories are being compiled into theatrical programs this year, and one of our local indie cinemas is screening this slate. It seems like the best chance to see this Oscar nominated, and apparently Anti-Zombie, film in action.
Yes, it’s probably all of a minute or so of film to deal with Zombies, and from the sounds of it, those sixty seconds will be unpleasant. But I sort of feel like we can’t pass up this historic occasion.
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