I saw this as part of a block of animation shorts at the Satisfied Eye International Film Festival. Having already seen it on 'the small screen' it's a film that really comes alive in a cinema, the small details, the soundscape, adding to the powerful impact of a smart, incisive short. With themes that are painfully relevant today, the size and scale of the drama envelopes you in the dark confines of a multiplex and the underlying images of divided society and violence conjures everything from right-wing fanaticism to the recent BLM riots. It's a wonderfully structured and paced animation with a sense of foreboding always bubbling beneath the surface - like a warning. But all in all, there is hope and while it is so prescient, we can only cross our fingers that the sense of optimism shown onscreen mirrors the possibilities in the real world.
