Disclosures

The second attempt at shorts falls a bit closer to the SIFF we've come to know and feel ambivalent about.

Easily the low point is "It's In The P-I", a pointless and functionally useless look at a failing Seattle institution. Unfortunately, due to his otherwise quite interesting career, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut Sparks is probably second from the bottom. It's not particularly bad, but it just doesn't really make a punch, despite having a couple good actors and good direction. The script probably should have been scrapped altogether, or else rewritten into a feature where the characters would have the space to really dig into the innuendo that they attempt here, rather than making broad passes that leave no subtlety to the performance.

On the top of the list is a fantastic animated attempt from Japan. Kudan is nearly impossible to describe, involving alternate dimensions, heads in jars, and a man-headed cow fighting the grim reaper. But it's well worth seeing.