“The Record” was selected as a finalist in this year’s ShortList Film Festival, presented by TheWrap. You can watch the films and vote for your favorite here.
A mysterious man enters an antique musical instrument shop and hands the owner a vinyl record. The shopkeeper puts it on the turntable and out pour the sounds of Peruvian flutes. The man then picks up the needle and drops it down in the same place. This time, Ikembe melodies flow. The visitor lifts and drops the needle again and again, and each time the disc plays different music. “Yes,” he tells the stunned owner. “It’s a magic record. It reads your soul. It plays everything you’ve forgotten.”
So begins “The Record,” Jonathan Laskar’s 2D animated short that has picked up more than a dozen prizes on the festival circuit (including the Annecy animation fest) and is a finalist...
A mysterious man enters an antique musical instrument shop and hands the owner a vinyl record. The shopkeeper puts it on the turntable and out pour the sounds of Peruvian flutes. The man then picks up the needle and drops it down in the same place. This time, Ikembe melodies flow. The visitor lifts and drops the needle again and again, and each time the disc plays different music. “Yes,” he tells the stunned owner. “It’s a magic record. It reads your soul. It plays everything you’ve forgotten.”
So begins “The Record,” Jonathan Laskar’s 2D animated short that has picked up more than a dozen prizes on the festival circuit (including the Annecy animation fest) and is a finalist...
- 6/29/2023
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
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