DEMI'S PANIC | Omeleto Animation
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- Опубликовано: 13 дек 2022
- A young woman is overcome with fear as a deadly virus spreads around her.
DEMI'S PANIC is used with permission from Bill Plympton. Learn more at plymptoons.com.
Demi is a young professional woman living in New York City. She has disturbing dreams, which start to feel all too real when an invisible danger starts spreading throughout the world, causing catastrophic loss.
She turns to her boyfriend Omar for support. But as the world is being battered by an invisible storm, a safe harbor is hard to find.
Directed and animated by Academy Award-winning Bill Plympton and written by Danny Leonard, this animated short captures the anxiety that happens when the world begins to fall apart. Though it's never mentioned explicitly in the film, the story is clearly inspired by the Covid-19 pandemic, but it's also an incisive, impressionistic study of the isolation at the heart of depression and anxiety, and how it feeds our choices.
The hand-drawn, 2-D illustrated style of the animation comes courtesy of legendary animator Bill Plympton. The black-and-white pencil drawings that characterize Plympton's style have the engaging humanness of hand-drawn visuals, but the beautifully responsive lines also reflect a world that's especially pliable to the forces of uncertainty, doubt and fear from the outside world.
As the world outside of Demi's personal realm begins to become scarier, the animation is flooded with splotches of color. The images destabilize from the cleaner, more stylized drawings from the earlier part of the film, as Demi begins to feel more anxious and depressed. As she becomes more isolated -- and the outside panic bleeds into her innermost circles -- she hits a crisis point, just at the point where she feels most alone.
Poignant and engaging, the choice of animation in DEMI'S PANIC as the primary vehicle of expression offers a unique engagement with the subject matter, particularly in comparison to live-action: we're able to take the global event from a wider perspective, and grasp the larger patterns and structures that undergird personal experience. But its focus on mental health gives it relevancy that extends to all sorts of people, no matter where they stand on the various fault lines that make up American life now. No one is immune to anxiety, fear and sadness, though carrying those emotions too long can make it seem like we're alone. Forced into aloneness and fed by anxiety and grief, we will connect however we can, because ultimately it's connection that makes us human. 
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Crying. Covid has forever changed how we look at the world and interact with others. I love how the ending captures the fact that the pandemic hasn’t gone away even if many of us are acting like it has. Stay safe out there.
I relate to this so much. I have severe hypochondria. Even the smallest pain in any part of my body can drive me to the conclusion that I’m going to die. I cant swim in lakes and oceans or even drink tap water, and I’m always so nervous to turn on the news or be around my friends whenever I’m having these episodes. I’m glad this was made, because now I feel a twisted sort of comfort, as if I’m not the only one whose always worried sick about illness or disaster or impending death. Thanks Omeleto!
1:00 ok whoa….just whoa. Very impressive
Amazing work. This is a story that reflects Covid-19 pretty well for anxiety driven people
Reminds me of the 2021 hell when we lost a loved one. I wish this had never happened.
This gave me anxiety beyond belief. Just like when the pandemic first started. That being said, I agree...even if it's still out there. You have to live your life. Period.
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!! LOVE FOR THE ANIMATION CHANNEL!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful
Loved the animation style.
So refreshing!
love this
Bill Plympton is the best
inredible
You aren't seeing this right... The genious approach showed all, even the already empty and useless meat bags, who is who.