The Future For Tom And Jerry?

In March of last year, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, operating under the username RANDYPETERS1 posted a hand-drawn animated video on Youtube called 'Octocat Adventure 1'. Featuring crude MS Paint animation and a highpitched, child-like narrative voice, the clip documented octopus-cat hybrid Octocat on a quest to find his parents.

Three more episodes of Octocat subsequently materialised and the clips garnered something of a cult following. When the fifth and final instalment of Octocat's adventure was posted in September, an unexpcted twist made it clear that the work was not that of a nine-year-old boy.

Irish-born artist David O' Reilly subsequently claimed responsibility for the project, claiming it was an exercise in showing that people can "follow the worst animated, worst designed and worst dubbed film of all time, and still laugh and cry and do all the things you do watching a so-called “high end” film."

O' Reilly's latest film 'Please Say Something', although perhaps not as subversive as Octocat, is nothing short of a masterpiece. The film, depicting the troubled relationship of a cat and mouse in the distant future, was awarded the Golden Bear for 'Best Short Film' at the 2009 Berlin Festival and deservedly so.

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[Discovered via Why That's Delightful. Image: Dan Dare]