2009-06-03 13:58:03

WINDRIDER SUMMER ONLINE MOVIE SERIES: MUTTON KILLER!

Filed under: Movies
Posted by: John

In Remy Schaepman’s Sheep On The Roof, a six-minute animated short, a gray-faced everyman starts to hallucinate that his fellow cogs in the wheel are turning into animals. The first sign that he may be losing his mind is the eponymous creature of the title: a sheep parachutes out of the sky, lands on a feasibly Parisian rooftop and starts to exterior decorate. The French are renowned aesthetes, but this is ridiculous!

Soon enough, the hallucinations get out of hand, and our protagonist, whose face calls to mind five-day old animated oatmeal, must take action or–what? He goes insane and shoots the people in his office? He runs off to Tahiti with the man who sells him pain au chocolat? More likely, he runs off to Wales to raise livestock.

We don’t really know. In Schaepman’s brief vision, we get a portrait of tedium shocked to life by a mirage of fantasy. Perhaps the sheep and the pharmacopia of reptilian, aquatic and avian life that follow are meant to be the promise of a better life. Shall we read theology into this beguiling thing?

Far be it from me. Schaepman shows promise. His wisp of a short gives us charm and menace and humor. My 10-year-old liked it. When I asked him why, he said, “It was funny.” “Anything else?” I asked. “Nope,” he said. “It was funny.”

So it was, with shadows of madness.

Check it out here.

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