Hunger

On one of the comments of Thomas Knowler's animated short, Gorge, in the Cartoon Brew site, this particular person compared it to Peter Foldes' Hunger of which this person provided a link to the National Film Board of Canada site where it resides. So with my curiosity stoked, I decided to watch this animated short there. Before I begin the review, let me mention that this was the first time a computer aided in the making of an animated film which gets noticed when a figure obviously not drawn by hand appears in the middle of the short. Okay, so a man who loves to eat does so in big gulps. And he just keeps getting more obese as the short keeps going on. And then when he encounters a group of people who are starving...well, just watch this film if you want to know. The score is by Pierre Brault and it goes from repetitive to maybe a little bluesy and back again to disturbing effect. Artistically, I don't consider this one of the best I've seen but it sure is very compellingly drawn and effective, message-wise. So on that note, Hunger is definitely worth a look.