The Animation Pimp Presents – Binocular Briefs HO HO HO HO HO HO Edition

We’re going to do something a bit different this month and dig out a few Christmas/Winter related international animated shorts that pull back the curtain and show us decidedly different perspectives of this contradictory thing called Christmas. This is stuff you won’t see, sadly, on most streaming channels. Enjoy our special Binocular Briefs Christmas Animation Playlist. See you all, let’s hope, next year. Redesigning Christmas, Torill Kove, 2014 Architects want to ensure that Christmas is better designed. It should go well. Merry Grandmas, Natalia Mirzoyan, 2020 Here’s a quirky but lovely designed Christmas tale of Masha, a young girl who has to stay at her grandmother’s place while her parents go off to a New Year’s bash. Bored and resentful, things seem to get worse for poor Masha when three other grannies arrive. Between falling dentures and moans about various ailments, Masha is mystified by these babbling old ladies…until a mysterious little Santa figure arrives and suddenly things get a tad wild and magical. Turns out these ladies know how to party! Armed with a warm, rich, and colourful design that reminds one of vintage children’s book illustrations (e.g., Golden Books), Merry Grandmas is a light-hearted tale about keeping an
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