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REEL REVIEWS: Excellent Oscar nominee shorts ring true

Close Steven Prescod and Robert Taronga (a blind and deaf actor) in the Oscar-nominated short film “Feeling Through.” Courtesy photo By Alice Reese Herald-Banner Contributor Apr 24, 2021 5 hrs ago Steven Prescod and Robert Taronga (a blind and deaf actor) in the Oscar-nominated short film “Feeling Through.” Courtesy photo The following excellent short films are nominated for Oscars at the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for Sunday, April 25. FEELING THROUGH (Live Action Short) Tareek (Steven Prescod), who remains homeless during a chilly late night in New York City, desperately texts various friends asking for a place to spend the night. As he moves around the city, Tareek encounters Artie (Robert Taronga), who manages to communicate his need to catch a bus. Artie, it seems, is deaf and also blind.Tarek, who had been so self-centered earlier, becomes involved in the complexity of getting Artie on the correct bus to make it to his home.

Oscar shorts tell of fraught relationships in Israel – The Forward

This year’s five Oscar-nominated live action shorts are strong, disturbing and concise (the longest is 45 minutes). Among the issues they explore are law and order, immigration and interracial relations. “Two Distant Strangers” examines police brutality and the African-American’s nightmarish anxiety that he will inevitably encounter it. “Feeling Through” explores the unlikely bond between a Black homeless teenager and a deaf and blind white man. “The Letter Room,” centers on the ambivalent experiences of a correctional officer whose duties in the prison’s mail room entail reading letters to and from death row inmates. The other two films, “White Eye” and “The Present” were made by an Israeli and a Palestinian director, respectively, and they delve into complex moral issues that characterize a region awash in anguish and ambiguity.

Film Review: 2021 Oscar Nominated Short Films – Live Action – SLUG Magazine

SHORTS TV As we prepare for the upcoming Academy Awards, one category—or, to be precise, three categories that are easy to gloss over are the short films. This is because most of us simply haven’t seen or even heard of them. SHORTS TV has made a laudable effort to change this, and the 2 021 Oscar Nominated Shorts can be viewed in theaters and online—mostly online this year, if we are being honest. As a filmmaker in addition to being a film critic, I’m most prolific in the area of making short films because they are easier to get made at a high quality and on a low budget. But as someone who grew up on

'Film-making? Bring it on!': ex-stockbroker Farah Nabulsi on her Oscar nomination | Film

Astonishing scenes … Nabulsi during filming of The Present. Photograph: Monther Sbaih Astonishing scenes … Nabulsi during filming of The Present. Photograph: Monther Sbaih Tue 6 Apr 2021 12.33 EDT Last modified on Tue 6 Apr 2021 12.35 EDT Farah Nabulsi was at home in west London when she found outher film The Present had been nominated for the Oscar for best live action short. She’d persuaded her teenage sons to stay home and watch the announcement. When she heard her name, she jumped up on the table. Her eldest looked at her as if she’d gone mad. He’d got it into his head that this was the actual ceremony and she had lost. “He was like, ‘Why are you so happy? They didn’t pick you.’ He killed the moment.”

How to win your Oscar pool: Ace the three shorts categories

Burrow (USA, 6 minutes) Director: Madeline Sharafian.  In perhaps the quaintest of the five animated shorts, a female rabbit digs for new digs only to repeatedly find herself invading the space of other burrowing creatures. This process continues until she learns going it alone isn’t nearly as fun and rewarding as joining together to form a community. What Sharafian, an artist on the Oscar-winning “Coco,” lacks in imagination is handsomely compensated by superior animation techniques and a fastidious attention to detail. Still, it fails to unearth much emotion.  Grade: B- Genius Loci (French, 16 minutes) Director: Adrien Mérigeau. No arguing the inventiveness of Mérigeau’s distinctive pen-and-ink style, but his deep dive into the inner-emotional world of a young, lonely Parisian woman is just too esoteric to comprehend. It’s visually pleasing watching the constant shapeshifting of people, patterns and pets, but for what purpose? And at 16 minutes, it becomes a bit of a chore trudging toward a confusing, most unsatisfying conclusion. That’s a significant letdown considering Mérigeau got his start as an animator on Tomm Moore’s classic, distinctively Irish tale, “Song of the Sea.” Grade: C

2021 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action - Movie Review