S'ghetti Plane
2015 · 5m
Directed by Zachary Loren Jones
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
The eternal struggle between having dreams and being too lazy to chase them — involving spaghetti, airplanes, and the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Zachary Loren Jones put the Harlem Globetrotters in a spaghetti-airplane dream sequence to explain why he can't get off the couch — I've never related to a film more.
Five-minute lo-fi animation about laziness, spaghetti, airplanes, and the Harlem Globetrotters as symbolic figures — the unexplained presence of the Globetrotters is a Hertzfeldt-adjacent move and the four voice actors suggest real care underneath the rough surface.
Animated meditation on having dreams vs. being too lazy to chase them, featuring the Harlem Globetrotters as symbolic figures. Five minutes from Zachary Loren Jones, who I trust to find the existential core under the silly.