This is a 12-minute animated short film from 4 years ago that managed an Academy award nomination, but came short in terms of winning. It was made by Forbis and Tilby, a duo of female filmmakers who have worked together for a long time and both been Oscar-nominated before already. "Wild Life" is about a man living in the wilderness pretty much and he writes letters to his family which are only very vaguely accurate. Reality does look different than the fiction in these letters. It is a slightly melancholic short film, which gets a bit dramatic at the end after initially seeming more about comedy. And there are intertitles, which compare the fate of the man to a comet. I have to say the animation was okay, but the story really did not attract my attention and it felt a bit repetitive also despite the short runtime. The one thing you can say about this work is that it is very Canadian and you can see the impact of the NFB right away in the first two minutes. So maybe worth a watch for Canadians, but the rest does not have to see it.
Review of Wild Life
