Welcome to Your Daily Short, a new feature on Film.com that will highlight and stream a short film at high noon. Every weekday. Every week.
TODAY’S FILM: “La Maison en Petite Cubes” (Kunio Kato) 2008
RUNNING TIME: 12:06
WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH IT: Winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Animated Short, “La Maison en Petite Cubes” is one of the most sweetly melancholic short films ever made. A Japanese production (despite the French title) about a man who lives in a floating house above the ruins of his flooded hometown, I had never heard of this short until I visited Hiroshima on the anniversary of its nuclear devastation and “La Maison en Petite Cubes” screened as part of the wistful memorial service. The film’s Japanese origins were unknown to me at the time, but the parallels to the aftermath of the A-bomb were obvious.
In a quick 12 minutes that will likely leave you in tears, Kato’s short is an immensely graceful portrait of how we live on the ruins of our memories (literally, in this case), and the often necessary pain involved in re-engaging with them in order to persevere.
Yesterday’s Short of the Day: Isabella Rossellini’s “Green Porno: Bee”
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