A downright gorgeous short film about doomed astronauts after a spaceship crash

This isGrounded , directorKevin Margo‘s trippy seven - mo film about the final mo of extrasolar astronaut . Margo — who works on ocular effects forBlur Studio — tells io9 that this project look at several months of planning and animating , include “ one weekend with a forklift dangle an cosmonaut 50 animal foot high in the parking lot . ” His efforts definitely pay off , as the film ’s deliver the goods legion accolades on the fete circuit . Here ’s the outline :

One astronaut ’s journey through quad and life ends on a hostile exosolar planet . Grounded is a metaphorical account of the experience , inviting unique reading and reflectivity by the viewer . stem of aging , hereditary pattern , paternal blessing , cyclic trajectories , and behaviors passed on through generations are explored against an ethereal background .

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