Dogs of Life
2015 · 13m · USA
Directed by Jack Wedge
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: absurdist, humorous, surreal
In Wedge's crude Flash-adjacent animation style, a retired bounty hunter goes above and beyond the appropriate call of duty to help a neighbor who is essentially a stranger — an exploration of human nature through non-sequitur strangeness and subliminal surrealism.
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A retired bounty hunter helps a neighbor he barely knows. In Jack Wedge animation. Which means it looks like a Flash game from 2002 and hits like something you can't quite describe. Pre-'trump is a worm boy' Wedge, already fully himself.
13 minutes of Wedge's deliberately ugly Flash-adjacent animation about a bounty hunter's inexplicable generosity — the roughness is inseparable from the emotional texture and that's a real artistic position, but 13 minutes is a long ride in this aesthetic.
13 minutes of Flash-adjacent crude animation telling a retired bounty hunter's inexplicable-generosity story — the ugliness of the form is inseparable from the emotional texture. Jack Wedge knows what he's doing.