Erodium Thunk is a 2018 Canadian collage animated short by Winston Hacking, who is known for making music videos for such artists as Flying Lotus, Washed Out and Animal Collective.Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Winston Hacking|Cartoon BrewEarmarked for Collision - Google Books (ch. "WINSTON HACKING (CANADA)")Vivian Belik, "Winston Hacking's collages turn old ads into psychedelic fever dreams". CBC Arts, May 31, 2018.
Synopsis Named after the 1956 Michael Snow film A to Z, the film is a barrage of hyperlinked TV commercials and magazine ads (with doses of nostalgia and satire) that's also a comedic social commentary on late consumer capitalism.Binocular Briefs - Spotlight on Collage|Animation World NetworkSATURDAY SHORT: ERODIUM THUNK (2018)|366 Weird Movies
Accolades At the 2019 Ottawa International Animation Festival, the film won two awards - one in the Best Technique category for "its intelligent arrangement of source material and fascinating transitions" and the latter in the Non-Narrative Animation categoryFirst-time Ottawa artist honoured by animation festival - ARTSFILE stating that:On Gaku: Our Sound, Don't Know What, The Physics of Sorrow Win 2019 Ottawa Prizes|Zippy Frames
"with its compelling balance of control and chance, this ever-morphing collage just kept surprising us".
It also earned the spot on said festival's 50th Anniversary list of favorite Canadian animation shorts.OIAF Names 50 Canadian Shorts That Shaped Its First 50 Years|Animation Magazine
See also Vaporwave Criticism of capitalism Independent animation
References
External links Official website Erodium Thunk at IMDb