In this stop-motion animation, a prisoner describes horrific treatment by those that control him, although the world he describes is that of a creation within a stop-motion animation.
This short is quite meta as it has its story within the world of the creation process that made it. Such films run the risk of being too clever by half, and sometimes coming over smug, obvious, insular, and lots of other failings. Framed lands the material perfectly thanks to how cleverly it does it - and how it never wholly relies on the concept to be the whole thing. By this I mean it never needs you to be impressed by the idea, because the delivery in any specific moment is clever and inventive - so even when you have gotten the concept, it continues to deliver. The animation itself is impressive, and as a fan of stop-motion animation generally, I found it consistently enjoyable and rewarding.
