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Jet Lag

2025 · 0h 6m · Animation

Watch it tonight if you're into clever, experimental animation that finds profound meaning in everyday mundanity—this rotoscope take on airport culture is exactly the kind of refreshingly unconventional short that rewards curious viewers. Skip it if you need straightforward narrative or character-driven storytelling, because this is pure conceptual cinema dressed up in retro safety-brochure style.

Plot

Using rotoscope animation and the stylized aesthetic of classical airline safety brochures, the short film “Jet Lag” adapts Christopher Schaberg’s acclaimed nonfiction book "Airportness: The Nature of Flight" for the screen. Using the seemingly simple concept of ‘waiting in an airport’, the film explodes notions of not just modern air travel, but everyday life – how we struggle to get along with one another, manage our time, and use the space around us to maximum efficiency. Employing a tongue-in-cheek, almost stream-of-consciousness narration, the film playfully communicates the shifting complex emotions, anxieties, frustrations, and excitement that coincide with air travel. The tedium of waiting, the confusion of boarding, the nervousness of departure, the euphoria and relief of arrival. Beginnings and endings. At the airport.

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