The Great Big Cartoony Show , a retro-styled carnivalesque kiddies' theme for a fictitious cartoon show, simply avoids having an ending, closing where the show is supposed to start. The male vocalist races through a tongue-twisting shopping list of toonies with funny names. The animation and tune are brilliantly pulled off, but it would have been nice to see the cartoon go somewhere. Marco Bertoldo's Gone Bad , a stylish animation about a priest's unorthodox methods for carrying out the Lord's work, blends spaghetti western and zombie genres with a dry wit. In fact, the animation strand is easily the strongest element of Sundance's Online Film Festival - which probably is a fair reflection of the current situation with video on the web at large.
Animation seems to hold up well in terms of quality both on the audio and video side.
Also, well worth a look, particularly for fans of Eastern European animation, is Little Milosh , a burlesque fable about a timid man who makes a friend with a goat he meets in the woods and then teaches his bullying wife a lesson, with the help of his goatie friend. The story has a dark gothic quality to it that is reminiscent of Tim Burton. Darkness Part1 in the Video Works section. In this series of compositions professional designers combine the grainy aesthetic of Super 8 film with modern digital editing effects, adding some random experimentation for extra piquancy to create an arresting series. Twelve broadcast design studios and 10 composers collaborated to make 12 one-minute segments of a digital film.