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A girl is going along her way when a Japanese river otter catches up with her. The two try in vain to communicate while all the junk of humanity rains down around them.
Kawauso
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Kawauso - Das Mädchen und der Otter
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Japan
Sapporo International Short Film Festival
20 Feb 2024
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Germany
20 Feb 2024
- Premiere
Japan
08 Nov 2023
- Premiere Sapporo International Short Film Festival
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8 years in the making, detailed drawings about Man & Nature impossible connection.
The foreground elements (figures) are as detailed as the background, with little to no distinction between them.
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This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I'm sure that this deserves more attention than it's getting, but was it for me? No. I've seen stuff like this before and hurting my ears to make a point is not something I appreciate as an audience member even if I appreciate it as an artist and activist.
I feel like this is a commentary on over-consumption and how this greed robs us of the peace and tranquility that we actually need to be happy. That all of this stuff, aptly raining from the sky into our beautiful country land, isn't of real value or use to us. We just keep destroying the earth and thus destroy our own happiness. We continue until it's unbearable, like that screeching noise at the end of this, and thus we must give up on the stuff and re-invest in the quiet of nature, and the boredom of it.
I didn't like this, but I appreciated the message I got out of it.
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Like a bizarre picture book you read once as a child and never found again.
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Nan sérieux c'est joli mais que c'est lent ohlala
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Beautiful animation and I now want to know more about otters
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I liked the final scene a lot
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Une petit fille et une loutre sur un long chemin
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السما بتمطر بتنجان
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So beautiful! Really grabbed me. The detail is unbelievable. Too bad about that ball animation, but as a moving illustration alone it’s crazy
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C'est jolie le crayon
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"Kawauso" is for sure an unusual short movie, yet it's cryptic narration and not so original message fail to make it really shine.
The art is great and the animation is well executed and surely took some time, so this has to be praised. The composition is overall simple but not necessarily bad: the only camera movement that is used (animated) is a truck shot, used to show the character when they walk, while the camera shots are mainly alternations between some full figure shots and some close-ups.
The scenes shown do have an allegorical meaning and show the relationship between the otter and the girl; in the first one, the girl crushes what seems to be food for the…Translated from by