Full Set
2026 · 1m · Unknown
Directed by Caitlin McCarthy
A frantically paced 2D animated short about the visceral agony of freshly done nails.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Fifty seconds of frenetic 2D animated nail-pain — the loop structure is the joke and that's actually enough. Don't overstay.
A fifty-second anxiety-spiral about freshly-done nails in the Hertzfeldt-Looney-Tunes tradition is the kind of internet-native miniature that succeeds entirely on rhythm. Vimeo Staff comment on the page suggests it lands; I respect the brevity.
50 seconds. That's the entire pitch — Caitlin McCarthy doing a single-loop anxiety spiral about fresh nails, sound by Ana Roman, posted by Vimeo Staff. At that length there's no hiding from the gag, and 69K views in 2 months says the gag works.