Dinner full movie. Animation Documentary film in Disney Hotstar+

Dinner

2021

2 min

What are one week films? They're an assignment we do our first week back at CalArts, designed to dust off cobwebs by throwing us straight into the deep end. Our class theme was "square," and we had a lot of fun playing around with compositions inspired by East Asian graphic design.

Animation

Documentary

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