trump is a worm boy
2016 · 0m · USA
Directed by Jack Wedge
Genres: animation, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A 22-second experimental animation by Jack Wedge made in the wake of the 2016 election, depicting Donald Trump as a worm boy — a characteristically crude, stripped-down statement piece in Wedge's Flash-adjacent visual language.
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Twenty-two seconds. Jack Wedge looks at the 2016 election results, opens his software, and produces the most accurate political analysis of the decade. The title is literally the whole thing. No notes.
Twenty-two seconds of deliberate ugliness aimed at a deliberately ugly subject — the aesthetic crudeness is the argument, and the argument is over fast. Slight, but honest.
Twenty-two seconds of deliberate Flash-era ugliness as political shrug — Jack Wedge's aesthetic crudeness IS the argument. A perfectly sized joke that doesn't overstay.