Toy Story for the clinically depressed: two action figures discover they're disposable.
Buff and Cliff star in an animated series. When the series is suddenly dropped and they are no longer animated, they wake up with a set up in each their action figure on the artist's desk. From here begins a hard journey of realization for the two former stars, who are slowly beginning to realize that their entire lives have been constructed.
Direction
Kaufmann's stop-motion somehow makes plastic feel painfully human.
Writing
Packed more existential horror into 17 minutes than most features manage.
Director
Camilla Kaufmann
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The voice actors recorded separately and never met, which director Camilla Kaufmann said 'felt fitting for characters who only exist in relation to each other through a third party.'
Released during peak pandemic burnout, the film accidentally became a metaphor for gig workers and content creators watching their industries collapse in real-time.
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