A Short, Powerful Animation on Addiction: Watch Andreas Hykade’s Nuggets
From Andreas Hykade , the Director of the Animation and Visual Effects program at Germany’s Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg , comes a short animated film called Nuggets . Things start off innocuously, with a kiwi taking a casual stroll down a road, eventually encountering and tasting some golden nuggets. The nuggets are delicious, it turns out, too delicious to resist. Then [spoiler alert!] things take a dark turn, as we watch our friendly kiwi sink into addiction and despair. In an interview conducted by the Animation World Network , Hykade says that he created the film for young teenagers who might be tempted one day (presumably by drugs). And when that day comes, he hopes they’ll think about Nuggets and its striking, stripped-down message about addiction and the life it brings.
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via io9
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October 3, 2015 at 11:09PM
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