This was the running top video on a site I frequent for a week, truly excellent work. Some excerpts from the imdb trivia section:
# Jonas Geirnaert (then 21 years old) was a student animation and hadn't even graduated, when he came upon a registration form for the Cannes Festival on their site, decided he had nothing to lose and sent in his "graduation-work". He had told nobody, thinking he wouldn't even be selected anyway. To his surprise, he won in the category "Best Short Film".
# Geirnaert drew all of the animation (more than 9,000 drawings) himself. It took him two years. The sound however he had to prepare in less than half a day, because the deadline for sending in the work to Cannes had actually already expired.
# The version of the shortfilm that won the Jury Award at Cannes was an unfinished version.
imdb link posted by sourbrew at 10:15 AM on July 21, 2006
I guess I should have made it more clear that this film won the short film category at Cannes several years ago. posted by sourbrew at 10:18 AM on July 21, 2006
That was really cute, especially the bit with the panda and the trampoline transport trucks. posted by LeeJay at 10:20 AM on July 21, 2006
That was really funny. I don't have speakers at work, but I still laughed. posted by ny_scotsman at 10:32 AM on July 21, 2006
I lost it at the trampoline truck part myself. Neat film. posted by rfbjames at 1:43 PM on July 21, 2006
[This is good] posted by graventy at 2:00 PM on July 21, 2006
Man. I read that as "flatfile" and I thought someone had made a film about spartan database management. And I was pretty excited. posted by cortex at 8:09 AM on July 22, 2006
I was on vacation when you first posted this and turned this thread up in my Yahoo search since I was thinking about posting it to the front page, too. I really enjoyed this short, crunchland! posted by onlyconnect at 7:08 AM on August 3, 2006
posted by bokeh at 7:03 AM on July 21, 2006