SHORT FILM ~ Kielitiettyni (The Tongueling)

Uncomfortable. Bizarre. Just a few words to describe Finland-based animator Elli Vuorinen's animated short Kielitiettyni, or 'The Tongueling.' A man wanders through a desolate, depressing space of land, encounter a variety of strange yet eerily similar creatures and folks along the way, tied together by a common, tongue-y thread. His search is simple: To find what they all have. It's a disturbing and definitely delving deep into the abstract, but I dig it. The crude, grungy look of the animation definitely fits the animator's strange sense of humor.