A couple talk about love and their experiences while underneath the animation shows an apocalyptic scene of destruction, desperation, survival and love. I do enjoy the short form as a particular branch of film but will be honest and say that if there is going to be a specific style of film that makes me wonder what the hell I just watched, it will mostly seem to be animated short films. This is the case here as we have a poem that deals with the smaller issues of life (a defrosted fridge, commuter towns, shopping, a cruel word against a mutual friend) but at the same time is delivered with a hushed and frightened tone.
This tone matches the animation which is more clearly about the end of everything with our focus on a couple in the world of death and survival. This animation is at once disturbing but also quite beautiful to watch. It is full of haunting images that are cartoony in nature but yet work with the chilling tone the whole thing has. I will not pretend to fully understand what it all means or why Pott managed to make this from Chivers' poem, but it is very short and it works on tone and atmosphere. It does feel deliberately obtuse as a "story" but it has enough in the way it delivers to engage and draw the viewer in.
This tone matches the animation which is more clearly about the end of everything with our focus on a couple in the world of death and survival. This animation is at once disturbing but also quite beautiful to watch. It is full of haunting images that are cartoony in nature but yet work with the chilling tone the whole thing has. I will not pretend to fully understand what it all means or why Pott managed to make this from Chivers' poem, but it is very short and it works on tone and atmosphere. It does feel deliberately obtuse as a "story" but it has enough in the way it delivers to engage and draw the viewer in.
