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On/Off

2013 · 6 min

A short, quirky animated slice of couch-potato life that plays like a wry, slightly absurd cautionary gag about screens and convenience.

Directed by
Piotr Ludwik
Genres
Animation
Overview
Mr Potato lives in typical, Grandma's, stuffed flat. Green, awful wallpaper on the walls, TV in each room and a few mechanical improvements made not to waste time for shaving, cooking, washing up, going to buy beer. Why should you lose time if you can spend it on watching TV? So Mr Potato has everything organise, lives peacefully and devotes himself to his new passion- staring at the box. But one day...

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Directed by
Piotr Ludwik
Genres
Animation
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • technology
  • obsession
  • work
Places
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism3
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Details

Genres
animation
Directed by
Piotr Ludwik
Cinematography
Piotr Ludwik
Runtime
6 min
Country
Poland
Languages
Polish

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