Afternoon Class

A student sits in a classroom in the afternoon, fighting to keep their nodding head from the desk. In terms of narrative this is about the extent of it, but the short running time and clever animation makes this a good little watch. Without dialogue the film gives us a lot to relate to by the ways it depicts the feeling of the heavy head, and the wider fight to stay awake. It is not hilarious but it is cleverly amusing, and the flow of the images is very well done, with plenty of detail and slickness in the production. I watched it in lunchtime on a day at work when I had not had much sleep the night before, so although not as bad as the character here, I did have a similar feeling – and it is this ability to understand the struggle from the visual depiction that makes the content work, even if it is a pretty simple little film.