Ten, Twenty, Thirty, Forty, Fifty Miles a Day
2020 · 11m · Belgium
Directed by Mathieu Georis
Genres: animation, coming-of-age
Tones: melancholic, tender, whimsical
A young boy scout lags far behind his troop, moving no faster than the slug he befriends along the way.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Boyscout befriends a slug, played dead straight — that's the kind of small, weird animation that earns its Vimeo Staff Pick award. The slug is the spiritual peer, and I'm here for it.
Georis playing the boy-and-slug companionship completely straight at OIAF Staff Pick Award level is a small, perfect formal commitment in the Dudok de Wit-Gondry tradition. Eleven minutes of pure tone — and earned.
Vimeo Staff Pick Award winner at Ottawa International Animation Festival — playing a slug as the scout's spiritual peer for 11:12 is exactly the kind of patient absurdism that Ottawa rewards. 151K views and the play-it-straight commitment to the bit is the craft.
Festivals
- Ottawa International Animation Festival 2021, Vimeo Staff Pick Award