Featuring stop motion, the animation starts with a table where cars seems to have been played, as the deck and the cigarettes highlight, although there are also utensils that imply that eating is happening too. A moving broccoli soon appears and opens a drawer, where another similar character comes out off, while the message of a fortune cookie (or something similar at least) includes lucky numbers: 97,85 ‘Learn Chinese (Hao), good, ‘ also including the corresponding ideogram. The broccoli then brings an armchair to the other character and the two soon have a refreshment outside. A second fortune cookie appears, and the two then are watching a sort of karate lesson on TV. Then they play basketball, and a car arrives and picks them, before another fortune cookie appears.
Hao Hao Wan Wan is screening at CAAMFest
A rotating frame seems to show a kind of Chinese food buffet, while the two...
Hao Hao Wan Wan is screening at CAAMFest
A rotating frame seems to show a kind of Chinese food buffet, while the two...
- 5/4/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
AFI Fest 2023 wrapped on Sunday, and with it came another roster of winning features and shorts likely to land more acclaim as this awards season progresses.
The Live Action Grand Jury Prize winner was “Closing Dynasty,” directed by Lloyd Lee Choi and featuring a wide-eyed, 7-year-old’s view of New York City, while Sean Wang’s “Năi Nai & Wài Pó,” a heartwarming tale of the filmmaker’s two beloved grandmothers, took the Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize. The latter title also happened to win the 2023 ShortList Film Festival Audience Award at TheWrap’s long-running celebration of the best and brightest emerging moviemakers.
In the Animated Short category, Kenzie Sutton’s “Chutes” — an investigative look at capitalism and society through the guise of toys — took the Grand Jury Prize.
The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2023 Best Live Action Short,...
The Live Action Grand Jury Prize winner was “Closing Dynasty,” directed by Lloyd Lee Choi and featuring a wide-eyed, 7-year-old’s view of New York City, while Sean Wang’s “Năi Nai & Wài Pó,” a heartwarming tale of the filmmaker’s two beloved grandmothers, took the Documentary Short Grand Jury Prize. The latter title also happened to win the 2023 ShortList Film Festival Audience Award at TheWrap’s long-running celebration of the best and brightest emerging moviemakers.
In the Animated Short category, Kenzie Sutton’s “Chutes” — an investigative look at capitalism and society through the guise of toys — took the Grand Jury Prize.
The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action Short, Documentary Short and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2023 Best Live Action Short,...
- 10/30/2023
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
In her first year CalArts stop motion short Somebody Take The Wheel, Animator Kenzie Sutton takes the mundane regularity of day to day life and manifests it through the distinct visualisation of a literal cycle, the form of a large wheel which keeps on turning. Sutton juxtaposes this wheel with a series of vignettes that focus on the individuals who live upon it. For instance, we witness people getting out of bed in the morning and going to work regular jobs. The combination of these scenes with the wider shots of the wheel cleverly highlight the strange absurdity that comes with everyday living and the film’s stop motion animation style further compliments this, giving the representation of human existence a tactile, toy-like sensibility. Dn sat down with Sutton as Somebody Take The Wheel begins its festival, including a screening today at Palm Springs ShortFest to learn more about how...
- 6/22/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
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