An Exquisite Task from beck underwood on Vimeo.
This is just a beautiful piece of work. The animator shot it in an old barn that was set to be torn down. The figures are just a hairless doll whose face can't move and a baby's arm (not holding an apple), but there's expression and feeling here. Also I love how the action is integrated with cameos from the animals that live in the barn. They could already move, I'm guessing.
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I agree with you about the quality of the video. It's both mysterious and meaningful, wistful and oddly amusing in parts, and the animation is truly first rate. I loved the animated hay and the climactic end when the nest is absorbed and one new creature appears for just a moment. Followed by a chicken - seemed appropriate.
I remember in Ontario as the smaller farms were being bought up that barns were disassembled for the old wood to be sold off s panelling in fashionable homes. There's just no telling about people.
I picked up on the wistfulness, even though I've never been a parent myself. And yes, the chicken seems like an appropriate playmate, if that's the right term.
Keeping the aesthetic elements of the old farms into a later era is something I understand. Still,that kind of mass sell-off is something that can only be done once. At the very least I hope some of the money got into the hands of people who needed it.
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