![]() ![]() It sounds like faint praise, but i was 12min in before I first checked the timeline, and no part of me felt impatience while watching at home on my laptop, which is a rare experience for me even with gripping shorts of conventional plotting. As you might imagine, buoyed by a proper animation team of over 9 lead and general animators, Bucsi dials that quality up to an even greater level in Solar Walk. Even if upon first watch you fail to connect narratively or thematically to the piece, the simple visual ingenuity of the animation-its scenarios, its compositions, its sheer physics, can’t fail to captivate. ![]() 42, Bucsi’s defining trait as a creator is an over-abundance of ideas-that prior film featured over 50 seemingly unrelated vignettes, chockfull of visual and metaphoric creativity, that, only upon careful and repeated viewing, revealed a pleasing meta-structure and symmetry. Aren’t we at S/W champions of “storytelling” and frequently decry overly-long shorts that tax our internet-ravaged attention-spans? Solar Walk seems like the exact opposite of our programming tastes! Ok, first, don’t be so rigid as to wholly equate storytelling with linear narrative ( Solar Walk has plenty of story), but second, the lesson is, if you’re good enough, you can break any rule you want, and Bucsi has stepped up to the plate to deliver a future classic, something I consider no less than a 2001: A Space Odyssey for the It’s Nice That set.įeatured on this site in 2016 for her Oscar short-listed graduation film Symphony no. One of the rising stars of animation, Hungarian-born Réka Bucsi is today debuting online her latest short film, entitled Solar Walk, and it is a serious flex from a generational talent-a 20-min, semi-experimental odyssey through the vastness of the universe and creation, originally commissioned as a visual accompaniment to a jazz orchestral composition. ![]() (Editor: This film is no longer streaming for free, but can be purchased at this link) ![]()
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