2011 · animation · latvian · short
Ursus
Directed by Reinis Pētersons10m2011
A charcoal on paper animation about a motorcycling circus bear who decides to leave the daily routine and takes off to the forest where his true happiness seems to dwell.
Our read: Ursus (2011) reads as a warm, steady, inventive animation · latvian · short entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, gentle animation / latvian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- inventive
- intimate
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