Name: Atom Ant
Director: Jonas Odell
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 2000-06-12
Duration: 2 min
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Don Messick

A 2-minute fever dream where a 60s cartoon ant battles the apocalypse.

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Overview

Animation Music

Atom Ant faces the four horsemen and saves the earth in a stylized short

US

MortalityHeroism vs futilityCultural decay

Standout Aspects

Direction

Jonas Odell's frenetic collage technique on crack.

Editing

Cuts faster than your attention span can handle.

Sound

Soundtrack that slaps unreasonably hard for 2 minutes.

Best for:Solo·Streaming

Heads up:Disturbing·Jump Scares

Director

Jonas Odell

ReleasedJun 12, 2000

Runtime2m

StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast

Intensityhigh

Tonemixed

Feelmedium

Top Cast

Don Messick

Atom Ant (voice) (archive footage)

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Deep Dive

Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Cultural

Part of the 'Resfest' era of early 2000s digital filmmaking, when music videos and shorts collided with emerging software.

Trivia

Odell also directed the similarly unhinged 'Liberator' and 'Revolver'—this is his Hanna-Barbera trauma response.

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