It is a festival with certain shortcomings, of course. But let's not get hung up on the current hitches in the technology. The important leap of online film at this point is one of access, of allowing countless sketches to exist where there was formerly blank space. And like many of the short films around the Net, it is animated. It's just the sort of film that might catch your eye at a film festival then disappear into oblivion.
Digital technology gives it new and expansive life in cyberspace.
But the voiceover continues seamlessly from one episode to the next, and the animation makes subtle transitions independent of the spoken narrative. Visually, Jaeger's mixed-media animation is consistently interesting. Crayon seems to be the dominant agent, but Jaeger employs a range of stop-motion animation, xerography, photography, and cutout techniques to great effect. One of the most impressive moments of this short is a simulation of fancy camera work that displays a mastery of shifting perspective by someone with an obvious awareness of these details. Not everything in this film matches the originality of its high points.