Soup
2021 · 2m
Directed by Tiffany Pang
A mother cooks soup and embarks on a particularly bumpy bus ride.
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A mom makes soup and rides a bus—sounds like the setup for a greeting card, but Pang's absurdist timing and the sheer physics of that bumpy ride somehow subvert the coziness into something genuinely unhinged and funny.
Pang demonstrates formal control over her comedic intervals and a precise understanding of how animation rhythm can mirror the tradition of slapstick timing; the restraint between gags shows real craft awareness.
The decision to let the soup's trajectory become the film's central visual obsession—following it through each jolt of the bus rather than the mother's reaction—is the specific choice that transforms a domestic moment into something worth watching twice.