The fifth addition to this second run of "Star Wars Visions" takes things back to more traditional narrative after Aardman's joyous Northern nonsense. Korean animation studio Mir provide another visually arresting short film, if perhaps one that's a bit forgettable storyline wise.
Ara (Ashley Park) is a mechanic at the Jedi temple. All her life, she's believed that destroying a statue on her home planet could be the key to tipping the war between the Jedi and Sith in the Jedi's favour. She convinces the Jedi council to try, but they insist that Toul (Eugene Lee Yang), a padawan who's master was recently killed, accompany her. They return to the planet but discover that the Sith Lord Bichan (Daniel Dae Kim) who murdered Toul's master, is already there.
Again, beautiful work to look at. There's a watercolour aspect to it, even going so far as to (I assume) replicate the texture of the paper that it would have been drawn on. There's a dynamism to it too, particularly in the sabre battles, that is really well done.
Storyline wise though I wasn't wild about it. The need for balance between the Jedi and Sith has been well work, so it wasn't much of a surprise when the revelations about the statues come out. Anger leading to hate has also been pretty well covered, so again that aspect of Toul's story was cool, but not particularly new.
Again, nothing wrong with this one, but I won't remember it in a couple of weeks.