Hundreds of Beavers
A more marvelously devised action finale than the one offered by this crown jewel of absurdity will be hard to find in cinemas this year. After his company explodes, an applejack dealer finds himself stranded in the snow-covered wild. In his battle against the local fauna, he must graduate from teeth-chattering tenderfoot to cunning trapper in record time—to stand his ground against an army of beavers. Mike Cheslik puts this completely off-the-rails, awe-inspiring, side-splitting silent-film sketch anthology somewhere between Looney Tunes and Adult Swim. Masterful! (me)
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THE PATTERN
Mark Chua, Li Shuen Lam | HU 2022 | 15′
Austrian premiere
A multiverse anthology of vignettes that use different styles to explore the difficulty of coping with the inevitability of change.
Cheslik, Mike studied at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He made the five-part mini series Scheme Squad while at NYU. He and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews started making videos together back in high school in Wisconsin. Prior to making Hundreds of Beavers, they also created the wacky Lake Michigan Monster, which was directed by Ryland and premiered in 2018.
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