"Strings" is an animated short film from 1991, so this one is already over 25 years old and it was written and directed by Canadian Wendy Tilby and yes this is another NFB production and like many others this also managed to get in at the Oscars. It runs for 10 minutes, slightly over, and was seemingly the first filmmaking effort by Tilby and she's on it still today having scored two more Oscar nominations in the last decades. If you take a look at the animation style, you can easily see that they weren't even trying to compete with the glory days of Disney, WB and others and they were just going for new approaches. It is all subjective how you will like them, but I personally didn't too much sadly. Especially the character animation of the old lady I found particularly unappealing. I can see the efforts without a doubt and those were massive, but the overall outcome leaves me as unimpressed as the actual Oscar winner that year. Yet to see the third nominee. As for this one here, neither story nor animation I found memorable enough to give it a thumbs-up or a positive recommendation. My suggestion is you watch something else instead. The Oscar nomination is definitely way too much and it can impossibly have been a year this weak for animated shorts. Oh yeah final note the good news is that if you still wanna watch it, then you can wherever you are from and which languages you speak because there is no audible dialogue in here. But like I said best is to skip it and I hope Tilby stepped things up since then.
Review of Strings
