This Is Not Real By Gergely Wootsch

Gergely Wootsch's 'This Is Not Real' sparked a little bit of confusion, especially due to its distinct aesthetics and stripped down art style, extremely reminiscent of David O' Reilly's work. As a typical art school mistake, Gergely mentioned on the video that he decided to stick too close to his influences rather than taking them and making them his own.

That didn't bug me too much, because this short excels at its interesting, somewhat abstract narrative of a boy delving into his imagination to escape his less than ideal, gloomy reality with mixed results. His final admission of everything around him being surreal represents the ultimate escape, his final disconnect from a world that he doesn't belong to, or want to be in.