LOGORAMA

THE SPOODE CRITICS CHOICE:

I was glad I opted to watch the opening night shorts program at this year’s Sundance Film Festival because it was packed with four fantastic short films. One of those (arguably the favorite of the bunch) was an animated film called Logorama, written and directed by H5 / Francois Alaux, Hervé de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain. Nominee and winner of the Best Animated Short Oscar, Logorama takes place in a world full of corporate and brand logos (in which roughly 2,500 appear), and it follows a few different stories that all intertwine with one another. Honestly, it’s bloody brilliant, and no wonder why it got the Academt Award.

At Sundance, a bunch of us wondered how these guys could get away with making something like this without facing hundreds of lawsuits, and then we wondered whether legal matters would ever stop it from existing in some form online. Perhaps someone with a law background could chime in here. My favorite part is the Joker-esque Ronald McDonald, but it’s also the tiniest details that truly make this film a work of art.

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