How Oscar-Nominated ‘An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It’ Got the Title

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that title in our interview below.)Pendragon made the 10-minute short over the course of a year while in COVID lockdown. In an even deeper self-reflexive twist, his real human hands are often visible in the film.

In fact, almost the entire story plays out on a camera monitor, with all of Pendragon’s meticulous, frame-by-frame labor visible in the margins, like so:Pendragon, who won a Student Academy Award for this film last year, talked to TheWrap from his homebase in Brisbane about his effort to strike the perfect balance between “meta” and “pure” storytelling, who he’s hoping to meet at the Oscars on March 12, and about how the short got tagged with a very long and title.There’s an existential crisis in the film, which has echoes of Kafka or “The Truman Show” or “The Matrix.” Did you have points of inspiration while you were developing the idea?Yeah, there were influences from live action films that deal with an alternate reality.

But in animation, there’s a long history of deconstructing the process of animation itself. Usually it’s for the sake of comedy.

You can see that in Chuck Jones’s “Duck Amuck” or Tex Avery’s films. There are jokes in those where we see the humor of poking fun at the fact that these characters are constructed, with ink and paint.In my case, they are hand sculpted.