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A day in the life of..., 9 JÚLIUS 2004
8/10
Author: David Vanholsbeeck from Ternat, Belgium

This short by young fellow Belgian Jonas Geirnaert is already notable for the fact that the guy went to Cannes with his yet to be finished film, actually his graduation film (not yet judged by his teachers), won an important prize and had a remarkable speech afterwards saying "Don't vote Bush, in case Michael Moore shouldn't have the chance to say that this evening". This got him the recognition of a large part of the public, not in the least Moore himself. So, maybe we got a major filmmaker of the future on our hands here, ...with or without the help of MM. Now, is the short worth the fuzz? Pretty much so, yeah. It's a pretty darn funny and imaginative short, all the more remarkable by being the product of such a young filmmaker. I'm not sure what it's it trying to say, I guess you can interpret it in different ways, but I surely liked it and laughed several times. Catch it if you can. 8/10

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Yes, they didn't exaggerate, this is really a good short animation movie., 21 JÚLIUS 2005
8/10
Author: Philip Van der Veken from Tessenderlo, Belgium

How often will it happen that a young guy sends his very first, not even finished, movie to one of the most famous film festivals in the world and then sees how it is not only selected as one of the movies that will be shown during the festival, but even gets nominated for the Golden Palm and gets the Jury Prize? Normally you would say never, but it happened to Jonas Geirnaert, a young student animation who sent in his unfinished graduation-work and astonished the world with it.

"Flatlife" shows life in a block of apartments. Even though the four inhabitants don't seem to have anything to do with each other, their actions influence the lives of the others. When for instance one of them switches his television to another channel, the other one's television switches channels too. When the washing machine of one of the inhabitants malfunctions, everything in the other apartments starts shaking around...

I don't know if Geirnaert wanted to give us some kind of message with this short film. I guess there are many different ways of interpreting it all, but in my opinion that's not even the most important part of the movie. Thanks to the sometimes absurd humor (like for instance a flying panda), this is just incredibly funny. And although I feared that I wouldn't like it all that much, because I was expecting a lot, maybe even too much of it (over here it was an incredible hype), I must admit that there was absolutely no reason for that fear. This was just a very good short animation film which made me laugh out loud a couple of times. I give it an 8/10 and I hope that Geirnaert will come up with more movies like this in the future.

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Wonderful!, 9 SZEPTEMBER 2009
8/10
Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida

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While the artwork in this animated short isn't particularly stunning because it's so "normal", there is nothing normal about this film. It's wonderful from start to finish and proves you DON'T need computer generated animation or artsy techniques to make a great animated film.

The film consists of dividing the screen into four equally sized segments. In each, lives a different resident of an apartment complex and, oddly, you can see into their homes like the walls are invisible. So, simultaneously, you see four separate stories, of sorts, and it makes for fascinating viewing. At times, some of the residents are doing very little but more often than not, what happens in one apartment affects some of the other residents. For example, when one guy nails up a picture, the guy in the apartment below begins banging the ceiling with his broom. Additionally, and very oddly, when the guy in one flat watches a TV and the picture goes out, he hits it and the picture in one of the other apartments then goes out!! So, it's all a series of bizarre chain reactions and after a while it gets really, really chaotic and funny--showing that the film has a great and well-crafted story.

Clever!!

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