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Lunch Links: OPEN RECESS

Posted By Julius Kassendorf on November 15, 2018 in News | 98 Responses

As Waking Life demonstrated, animation can elevate even the most mundane conversations into an ecstatic celebration of life and all its weirdness. Open Recess is the animated story of a girl’s first lesbian crush/romance in middle school. The process must have started with a taped voiceover using a generic open air microphone – you can practically hear the emptiness of the room – which was edited to a short breezy length of three minutes consisting of nothing but the meat. This was finished with a simple (but not simplistic) animation that elevates the memory of our flood of teenage emotions.

Open Recess is not just a simplistic romance of love and heartbreak (it’s not a spoiler if it is in the freeze frame!).  In three minutes, Amy Xu and Kee Moore (interviewee) explore love, loss, and the cultural pressures that exist for LGBTQ+ youth that simply do not exist for heterosexual youth. It’s a familiar topic, phenomenally compressed and illustrated with sensitivity and nuance.

Open Recess from Amy J. Xu on Vimeo.

Posted in News | Tagged Amy J. Xu, animation, LGBTQ, Lunch Links, Open Recess, romance, Short Film, Youth

About the Author

Julius Kassendorf

Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. There, he dabbled in form within reviews to better textualize thought processes about the medium of film.

Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community.

Julius’ commanding rule about film: Don’t Be Common. He believes the worst thing in the world is for a film to be like every other film, with a secondary crime of being a film with little to no ambition.

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