CINEUROPA - Venice's Orizzonti Short Film Competition offers an eclectic selection
“Animation is also on offer with Irish film The Fall of The Ibis King, directed by Josh O’Caoimh and Mikai Geronimo. Emanating from the country’s National Film School, the film explores the machinations of an opera after one actor is shaken by the return of a former performer. With a heightened sense of reality — as the film plays with the intersection between melodrama and absurdity — the film has an animation style that is elegant yet bombastic. It’s a constantly bold piece of work that sings, both literally and figuratively.”
