Cincinnati World Cinema treats local cineastes to a
program featuring this year’s Oscar Shorts along with a bonus — God and Vodka — that marries romance and
longing in equal measure with the staying power many of Hollywood’s dramatic
features can only dream of achieving in three times the narrative length.
Shorts, in their purest form, are visual tone poems addressed to the
imagination. To only see the winners (Live Action: The Shore; Animated: The
Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore) would entail missing out on
the Groundhog’s Day-inspired zaniness
of Time Freak and the simple and
fluid painterly grace found in many of the animated cells. The 2012
Oscar-nominated Short Films will run in two program units on March 10 and 11.
For more information, visit www.cincyworldcinema.org.
