Oncle

Adam Elliot's style and approach to filmmaking is something that I find particularly powerful. His means of telling a story can be both simplistic and complex, riddled with jokes and genuinely impactful ruminations on life, love, death, and various other complicated philosophical and quintessentially human topics. And, although this was his very first film, Elliot really nails every aspect of both his personal stylistic approach to filmmaking and the art of the animated short in general. It's mild humour and heavy drama make 'Uncle' a brief but brilliant work of stop motion animation, and a generally excellent, funny, heartbreaking, and evocative work of art.