Rabbit and Deer
2013 · 16m · HU
Directed by Péter Vácz
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, whimsical
Rabbit and Deer live in contented 2D friendship until Deer becomes obsessed with discovering the third dimension — a pursuit that tears them apart across incompatible realities.
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A MOME graduation film that won over 125 awards at 300 festivals — its formal conceit of depicting dimensional rupture through mixed animation registers places it among the most conceptually rigorous short animations of its decade.
Sixteen minutes, 125 festival awards, 2D versus 3D as the actual rupture between friends — the formal idea is exactly the film. Vacz earned every prize.
125+ festival awards, 63 countries — the formal idea (one character flat, one rendered 3D, with the rupture as visible catastrophe) is rock-solid for sixteen minutes of friendship cosmology. Péter Vácz's MA thesis still in heavy rotation a decade later.