Borrowed Time (Coats, Hamou-Lhadj)

[Irish]

https://vimeo.com/187257744

Animated short. 6 minutes. Free for a limited time.


Co-directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj have been working on the short on their own time for the last five years, while working at Pixar on such features as Brave, Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur.

Coats and Hamou-Lhadj wanted to challenge themselves with this short, making it a darker tale than most shorts that are produced in the U.S.

"In America, animation has largely become synonymous with kids' films, whereas elsewhere around the world it's celebrated as a medium that can be used to tell any story," says Coats. "We feel this cultural difference limits the potential audience and range of themes in American animation, and is a large part of why we chose to make Borrowed Time."

https://variety.com/2016/film/news/animated-short-borrowed-time-1201888465/

[Irish]

https://vimeo.com/187281621

[number8]

Not sure why everyone went crazy for this, other than the novelty of seeing the Pixar aesthetic tell an adult story. This is very much style over substance, hitting only one note emotionally for the entire time. Most official Pixar shorts go through more complex emotional journeys than this.

[Irish]

I think it's more than an adult story in a cartoon format. They told an adult story with moral complexity, and they weren't afraid to alienate the audience. That's a lot more than mainstream features do these days.

I liked the animation. I liked that this thing had 2 different story turns in it: One deepened the stakes, the other that deepened the consequences.

Unlike most other short films I've seen in the past year, this doesn't play like a VFX sizzle reel, like somebody trawling for their next job. It uses the short form well, at least in that it expertly captures a single moment of experience.