No, this isn’t just another high concept, glossy car commercial—though it certainly does look like it at first glance. It starts out with a shiny car speeding down a winding road before shattering into pieces as a disembodied voice ponders, “What are dreams?”. It could easily turn sickeningly cliched and sentimental—as most car commercials do—but it doesn’t, staying just on the right side of odd. The flying chunks of silvery car bits transform into a mechanical jaguar that bounds across infinite lands, hunting deer as the voice-over continues its metaphysical meanderings, the narrative mimicking the shifting non-sequitur surrealism of dreams.But, more so than the short film’s disorienting story line, the animation itself is the star—elegant, refined, and crisp. The mechanized animals keep transforming from beast to fish to bird seamlessly while migrating between different worlds—forest, underwater, setting skyline—each realized with clean and concise approximations.
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