Pretty happy that David OReilly just won the first prize at the 2009 Berlinale for his animated short Please Say Something (first 5 episodes are above).  I’m not much of a follower of the festival circuit, but the Berlinale is a big one with big films and PSS is a little one made by one person in his apartment.  Part of what I love about PSS (and a lot of the other OReilly animations) is that it needed to be done by one person sitting in his apartment lost in his little created universe.  The narrative sense, the animation (3D but…), the sound design, and the pacing are all pushing against conventions but are still simple and coherent.  You can’t see all of PSS online but there are a bunch of OReilly’s other films over on vimeo.  Check out WOFL and his music video for the Venetian Snares (and if you have the stomach RGB XYZ is where it all started but…)

UPDATE:  The full-length version of “Please Say Something” is now online (and below)

http://www.davidoreilly.com

A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

Written, Directed & Produced by David OReilly, Sound design & Voice synthesis by David Kamp, Sound design & Music by Bram Meindersma. Distributed by Future Shorts.