Child (2016) Online

The life of an individual is played out from childhood to grave in an abstract film which sees the child come out into the world to cut down and move trees as wood. The animation of this is impressively done in stark blacks and whites, with plenty to appreciate on that front. The narrative though, offers little more than the concept I just described. The 'life cycle' short film is not new, and here it doesn't add much to what others have done. I didn't take much meaning from it - perhaps others will connect to the images and ideas immediately, but I did not. This left me coldly watching it go through the process without much feeling. The animation gave me something to appreciate in the film, as well as how stark and silent it was in tone and style, but otherwise it didn't do much for me