Georgia & the Time Machine
2016 · 7m · España
Directed by Daniel Utrilla
Genres: animation, family, fantasy
It is a special day for Georgia: her amazing invention is about to make its first flight, but she cannot do it without her father. She needs his help to make her machine work, and his company on the incredible journey through imagination that is about to begin.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a father-daughter invention story wrapped in whimsy—exactly the kind of sincere, consensus-friendly premise that usually puts me to sleep, and this one doesn't subvert a damn thing about it.
A formally competent animated short that sits comfortably in the lineage of stop-motion fables about childhood wonder, executed with care but without the formal audacity that would make it linger.
Utrilla builds the entire emotional arc on a single technical choice—intercutting the 'real' invention sequence with the father-daughter fantasy journey—and that one cut, that one layered editing decision, is what transforms a straightforward family story into something that actually lands.