I was very impressed by this stop motion short. All black and white, with the feel of an old documentary reel, it makes good use of ice cubes. The exact narrative I'd find hard to describe, but there seems to be an implication that species boundaries aren't as stable as we think. Somewhat ominous, but in a pretty way, and vice versa.
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It's a peculiarly elegant little film with its baseline of men working at something likely not done at all anymore interspersed with familiar creatures in most unfamiliar surroundings. Ice or liquid or both at once? The video certainly raises more questions than it answers.
I'm so old I remember those big blocks the iceman brought for our iceboxes when we first moved to Canada. Everyone in the park where we lived had an icebox and the iceman's straw floored wagon was pulled by a horse.
You could say that the ice captures them, or that it preserves them. Or even that they've always been dependent on it. In any of these conditions they seem to have a similarity to the other animals. But yes, there is definitely an enigmatic aspect.
Electric refrigeration is newer than a lot of people realize. Back when you could only keep things cold with ice that had been shipped in from somewhere, there must have been a lot of places that didn't do it. You were in Canada, which is kind of a lucky break.
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