Movie #3594 "Perfectly a Strangeness" (theater) Here are the oscar-nominated documentary shorts 2026, and this was the first one we saw. And true to its title, it was perfectly strange. Well, maybe not "perfectly" but indeed strange. No dialogue, it is a sensory point of view of three donkeys as on a normal every day walk right before sunset they pass some kind of astronomical observatory --- (Note: I didn't guess it was astronomical until we saw all the stars toward the end of this short --- thought it was a nuclear site with all the broken up rocks the animals had to traipse by or jump over) Anyway, it's what they hear and see --- so if we have a hankering to see one of these, you don't need to after watching this film because we see it through their eyes, and they probably see more than John Q. Public might see on his walk It's beautiful but it never drew me in --- and it never came across as "perfect" to me. Maybe that we are able to feel so close to the stars at a place like this? I'd give it 4 for its beautiful photography.
"PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS" 20224 15 mins (prime video)
In a dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
Director: Alison McAlpine
Writer: same as above
Actors: Palomo, Ruperto, Palaye
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