Mazes (Útvesztök) (2008) Movie Short Review

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MAZES (ÚTVESZTÖK) (2008) movie poster

If there is one kind of video that I always watch it is a hand-drawn animation. Get me on YouTube and give me a Bill Plympton video and I am happy. That is what this short film makes me feel like. It is a quick 8 minute short film by Hungarian artist István Orosz. One of his many artistic jobs in his career was as a poster designer and yet I could not find a movie poster for this short, so I made my own using the video. Útvesztök is Hungarian for maze.

On to the actual short. It is a series of 9 sections, each that starts with a maze, starting with the Ninth maze. You see a maze that is then solved using an on screen pencil - and the solve is always the number of the maze. Next you get a series of animated scenes; then maze 8, with the maze solved on screen, etc. It is fun to watch the animations and see what is going to be shown next. And the mazes look wonderful.

Fun to watch ! 6.5 / 10

You can watch the entire short film below !