Review: Solo-animated Sinking Road is full of interesting ideas and narrative missteps
If you're a fan of animation, you probably have some idea of how hard it is to make an animated movie. It requires so much work, so much time, by so many people. When you look at the movies being made by big studios here in Hollywood, there's literally hundreds of people working on new releases. Of course, there are animated features (and shorts and series and everything else) being made by teams of all sizes all over the world, and once in a while we get a movie that's a kind of one-person band. One person writing, directing, animating, editing. That makes my head spin, literally cannot fathom that level of dedication and work. But today I'm writing about one such movie, Sinking Road . Made by Swedish animator Moa Olsson (also known as Baphomet the Clown and PoundToundHound online), Sinking Road is just shy of an hour long, and follows Dottie Duette, a woman who gets pushed off a bridge and finds herself transported to a bizarre magical kingdom. She's eager to retu...
