One Peg Boss
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Travis Wood
Genres: animation, comedy, documentary
Tones: humorous, melancholic, whimsical
Eight-year-old Travis Wood narrates the month two bikes were stolen out from under him — the first vanished after his birthday, the second hijacked by a local bully he then attempts to confront. Crude, charming animation carries the kid-logic.
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Stick-figure memoir narrated by an actual child — already weirder than 90% of the festival circuit. Wood's refusal to dress up his memories in adult vocabulary is the whole reason this works.
Eight-year-old autobiographical animation narrated by the eight-year-old himself — Hertzfeldt-stick-figure-pathos crossed with Plympton diaristic memory is a beautiful, specific form.
Autobiographical childhood memoir animated like a notebook doodle, narrated by an actual eight-year-old voice — that diaristic immediacy is the whole reason to make it animated. Travis Wood's track record suggests this lands.