Watch This: Oscar-eligible Olivia y las Nubes makes its online debut

One of my favorite animated movies from last year had its proper roll-out this year, and thus is one of the 35 Oscar-eligible animated features this awards season. Olivia y las Nubes is an astonishing vision, one that eschews narrative neatness to make something more daring, visceral, and unique.

Here's a bit of what I wrote in my review last year:

I feel like I just have to say it, hyperbole be damned: Olivia & Las Nubes (Olivia & the Clouds) is one of the most visually dazzling movies I've ever seen. I would fill a museum with frames from this movie. Multiple museums, even. It is so gorgeous, colorful and surreal and inventive and unique. It feels like a mixed media art project in motion, blending so many media into a strangely coherent package. I say strangely because I feel like this kind of aesthetic boldness could feel like a distraction, an example of style-over-substance. At first, I kind of wondered if that's what I was in for. It's a bit hard to find your footing in this story out of the gate with how dreamy this is, with how frequently the visual presentation changes. But after meeting the characters and getting on the film's wavelength, it's such a stunning journey.

The film has continued making the festival rounds this year, and had its theatrical premiere in the Dominican Republic this summer. Now, the filmmakers are doing something very cool, making the film available to watch online.

From December 20 - 28, you can check out the film on YouTube, with a special introduction by writer-director Tomás Pichardo Espaillat. I truly can't recommend the film enough, and I hope this direct approach allows more audiences all over the world to discover a truly dazzling bit of animation. (Note: due to pre-existing festival deals and such in certain countries, the YouTube link won't work everywhere in the world.)