Each segment is directed by a different visionary, so you're essentially watching seven different animators argue about what animation can do. The opening and closing pieces, Genius Party and Baby Blue, are so stunningly realized they justify the entire runtime by themselves. The middle stretches harder than it lands, but when this anthology commits to pure visual storytelling over narrative, it becomes something you've never seen before.
Seven wildly different visions collide in this anthology collection from Studio 4°C. Each short stands alone with its own director, narrative, and visual language, refusing to follow any single rulebook. In one story, a strange bird-like creature crosses a barren desert and comes upon what looks like a smiling egg. Another centers on a boy who finds a device that brings his drawings to life, just as his town faces invasion by spaceships and machines far beyond Earth's time. A zombie-infested world becomes oddly mundane until something genuinely alive falls from the sky. Elsewhere, a ghost flees other versions of himself, a man is caught in an endless loop of work, an infant leaves a nursery he learns is fake, and two students spend a day going wherever they like together. The shorts range from touching to downright bizarre.
