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Stand Up
It’s strange how you can see a film and be so impressed and then forget about it for 2 years. I remember coming back from the London International Animation Festival in 2008 and desperately searching the internet for Stand Up by Joseph Pierce and then being bitterly disappointed that I couldn’t find it. It was one of the best short films I had seen that year and one that has stuck in my head ever since. Watching it again, I was somewhat anxious in case I had been slightly misled by my memories of this film. I’m glad to say I wasn’t! Stand Up is an outstanding piece of filmmaking, fresh and playful in style, whilst funny, yet uncomfortable in narrative, it’s a short I could watch over and over again.
Stand Up from Joseph Pierce on Vimeo.
Author: El Vez
Demonstrator in Online Journalism at Bournemouth University by day and obsessive independent film fan by night. Directors Notes is the perfect outlet for these 2 worlds to combine. Twitter: @kung_fuelvis
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[...] First Short of the Week of the year and I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2011 than with Joseph Pierce’s sublime Stand Up. [...]
[...] Back in December El Vez shared his rediscovery of Joseph Pierce’s animated short Stand Up, which had made its initial impression after he viewed it at the London International Animation Festival in 2008. Since then Pierce has been hard at work on new piece A Family Portrait, which lays bare tensions lurking below the surface, much at odds with the ideal of capturing the ‘perfect’ family on film. [...]