Studio Colorido Short - Control Bear "Wonder Garden"
Girl looks at toy bear on display in a shop window, has huge fantasy in her head with transforming clothes, an army of bears, a giant secret mecha bear undergound, etc. Cute delusion.
Studio Colorido Short - Rain Town
From the looks of the credits, this is probably a graduate work when the director was in university. It drags on a bit, and lacks polish, but still works emotional. It's a story of a girl living in "rain town" with her grandmother, which seems like some abandoned post-apocalyptic city, and she finds a lonely robot while playing and the robot is reminded of another girl he used to play with - probably the grandmother. The tone is pretty bleak, but the ending was bittersweet.
Studio Colorido Short - Paulette's Chair
Watching this again after watching the historical catalog of shorts the creators did gives new perspective. There's this running theme of loneliness and finding companionship in the imagination through inanimate objects. It's actually pretty depressing to think that the creators have told this same type of story over and over using different premises, protagonists, and fantasies. That doesn't seem like a very healthy perspective in life!
Studio Colorido Short - Hinata no Aoshigure
And I guess this was what it many of their works were leading to. While it's only 18 minutes long, it's still the longest thing they've made up until the point they made this. It has all the elements of their previous works in different ways too, but feels more complete and a little bit more mature. There's the boy pining after the girl, but too awkward to actually approach her normally. There's the girl who is also interested in the boy, but doesn't see why he's so shy. There's the boy's passion for art which he uses to express himself but is too shy to show others, and through that his fantasies materialize visually for the audience. I thought the entire chase scene being turned into a music video was kinda tacky and predictable, but I really liked how the story actually ended because instead of a happily-ever-after. it feels more like a life-goes-on-but-we-have-grown-a-little conclusion. Small steps for small children seems fitting.
Girl looks at toy bear on display in a shop window, has huge fantasy in her head with transforming clothes, an army of bears, a giant secret mecha bear undergound, etc. Cute delusion.
Studio Colorido Short - Rain Town
From the looks of the credits, this is probably a graduate work when the director was in university. It drags on a bit, and lacks polish, but still works emotional. It's a story of a girl living in "rain town" with her grandmother, which seems like some abandoned post-apocalyptic city, and she finds a lonely robot while playing and the robot is reminded of another girl he used to play with - probably the grandmother. The tone is pretty bleak, but the ending was bittersweet.
Studio Colorido Short - Paulette's Chair
Watching this again after watching the historical catalog of shorts the creators did gives new perspective. There's this running theme of loneliness and finding companionship in the imagination through inanimate objects. It's actually pretty depressing to think that the creators have told this same type of story over and over using different premises, protagonists, and fantasies. That doesn't seem like a very healthy perspective in life!
Studio Colorido Short - Hinata no Aoshigure
And I guess this was what it many of their works were leading to. While it's only 18 minutes long, it's still the longest thing they've made up until the point they made this. It has all the elements of their previous works in different ways too, but feels more complete and a little bit more mature. There's the boy pining after the girl, but too awkward to actually approach her normally. There's the girl who is also interested in the boy, but doesn't see why he's so shy. There's the boy's passion for art which he uses to express himself but is too shy to show others, and through that his fantasies materialize visually for the audience. I thought the entire chase scene being turned into a music video was kinda tacky and predictable, but I really liked how the story actually ended because instead of a happily-ever-after. it feels more like a life-goes-on-but-we-have-grown-a-little conclusion. Small steps for small children seems fitting.
