“I don’t demand much, my life is drifting away…” If you’d like to prevent your life from drifting away, you need to stop and take 14 minutes to enjoy this. You won’t be the same after. The Burden is a Swedish stop-motion animated short film musical from filmmaker Niki Lindroth von Bahr. It originally premiered back in 2017 and played at almost every major festival – Cannes, TIFF, Sundance, Annecy, Fantastic Fest, and many others. If you haven’t seen it yet, well what are you waiting for? A dark musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator. In this comically acerbic musical epic, the animal occupants of a generic shopping plaza next to a freeway sing out their existential angst — doomed by the apocalyptic banality of subsistence in the modern age. How magical. With the voices of Carl Englén, Olof Wretling, Sven Björklund, Mattias Fransson. Click play below. // Continue Reading ›
Watch: An Animated Existential Musical – ‘The Burden’ from Sweden
