Daughter C. and her partner, R, came over for dinner
tonight. I made a West African chicken stew
with peanut butter — delicious.
Between
dinner and dessert, we showed each other Oscar-nominated animated shorts on
YouTube. C. showed me The Blue Umbrella,
which is sweetly sentimental and cleverly shows how many inanimate objects can
look like faces. I showed them Destino,
a Dali-Disney collaboration from 1946 that was never completed until Disney’s
nephew unearthed it in 1999, had it completed, and it was nominated in 2003.
Surreal
visuals and a haunting song make this something I could watch over and over.
These
Oscar-nominated shorts, the animated and live action, can usually be seen
only if you’re an Academy voter or are lucky enough to live in New York City or
L.A., where they are sometimes shown in the weeks before and after the Academy
Awards. But YouTube has many of them, either whole or trailers. Check them out.
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