What, exactly, is happiness anyway? For that matter, what is bliss? Are they genuine emotions, or, in a cold, grey and uncaring urban nightmare are they merely commodities that can be created, bought and sold? If the latter were the case, what would be the price?
Mark Osborne's gorgeous 1999 stop-motion short film More tackles this subject with a magical grace that simply has to be seen to be believed. Nominated for an Academy Award for short animated film (and taking the honors in Sundance, South by Southwest, and ResFest), this fascinating short examines the cost to one's soul that trying to create a genuine emotion can exact.
Equally cool is that Osborne chose a track off of New Order's 1985 album Low-Life for the dialogue-free film - the glorious and understated instrumental, "Elegia". My goodness; it really appears they were made for each other. It ... works, in a thoroughly surprising and inspiring way.
But don't take my word for it! Watch it yourself, and get lost in the magical world of ... More.
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