Feathered Frenzy
2023 · 4m
Directed by Muizza Nur Rahman
A young woman struggles to wake up in time for her business meeting. After four years of on and off work, interrupted by the pandemic, school, life, and not to mention animated nearly completely on my ipad using procreate...
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a pandemic-era slice-of-life about missing a meeting—the most conventional premise possible—which means either Rahman found something genuinely warped in the execution or this is exactly the kind of safe comedy everyone else would pick, and I'm not convinced either way.
The iPad-native animation aesthetic places this firmly in a contemporary digital lineage, though without seeing the formal choices that distinguish it from dozens of other pandemic-reflective comedy shorts, it reads more as sincere documentation than considered craft.
Four years of interrupted production on an iPad, culminating in a 4-minute piece about struggling to wake up—that constraint-to-payoff ratio hinges entirely on whether Rahman found one specific visual or timing decision that transmutes the mundane premise into something that lands, and that's worth watching for.