Filmmaker Felix Golgrave has uploaded his latest musical short Donks to Youtube.
Using digital collage techniques, the six-and-a-half-minute short is aesthetically and sonically pleasing, featuring a bright mix of absurd sound effects (including fun use of the Hanna Barbera Sound FX library) and thrumming music behind smoothly animated semi-familiar shapes that crawl around, conjoin, and break apart, defying establish laws of logic and physics.
Despite the film’s surreal visuals and sounds, it’s clear that Colgrave is commenting on the subject of ocean plastics. In one of the film’s most straightforward scenes, a barge dumps a mountain of brightly colored donks into the sea, kicking off a messy underwater bacchanal between the toys and oceanic bottom feeders.
