

A 4-minute Pixar short that'll wreck you harder than their features.
A little girl and her inventor father celebrate the success of their greatest dream, on a day she will never forget.
Direction
Lin Oeding packs a feature's worth of emotion into 4 minutes.
Visual Effects
The flying invention reveal is pure visual poetry.
Score
Bach's music becomes a character of its own.
Director
Lin Oeding
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a Pixar SparkShort, made with lower budgets to let newer filmmakers experiment—Oeding later directed Nobody with Bob Odenkirk.
The flying machine design deliberately evokes childhood sketch aesthetics, as if Emma drew it herself.