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A boy learns to play the piano.
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World premiere at the 67th Venice Film Festival
US premiere at Sundance 2011

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  • moritz resl 1 year ago
    yeah, finally!
  • Raoul Paulet plus 1 year ago
    Finally! :-)
  • Steven M. Bumgardner 1 year ago
    Meanwhile...
  • another being creative 1 year ago
    ughhhh, typical...
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  • Kenny Benitez plus 1 year ago
    Amazed...
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  • Lematt [Matthieu Garcia] plus 1 year ago
    Piece of art. Of master.
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  • gareth p 1 year ago
    Aweeesome!
  • JHåland plus 10 months ago
    really awesome!
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  • Trevor Knapp Jones 1 year ago
    Yeah!
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  • Tiago Bahia 1 year ago
    Was waiting for this since September, when you mentioned at the Offset in Dublin... Jez....
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  • John Walsh 1 year ago
    God damn... Awesome.
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  • Eric Kervern plus 1 year ago
    "This is it !" Congratulations !
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  • Bertrand Avril 1 year ago
    You're definitely crazy! I loved it.
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  • Trevor Knapp Jones 1 year ago
    cool film man, I like the animation and the character design. Thank you for posting it
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  • Seth Kinkaid 1 year ago
    yes! you've uploaded it! i'm still amazed. i love the "wah wah wah" sound of the giant walking mouse (after the boy and father die by frisbee). fantastic.
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  • Ray Roman 1 year ago
    Good God!
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  • Robert Magpie 1 year ago
    love it!
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  • Yussef Cole 1 year ago
    Lalalalalala! :)
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  • ClimberFX (Rafael GRV) plus 1 year ago
    You made a master piece! I love it man. Super original! Congratulations...
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  • Ayhan Cebe 1 year ago
    Great film, as always.. love it!..
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  • Richard Sanz 1 year ago
    Poot.
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  • Noslenespiral 1 year ago
    A great work you made. Can I ask were you arrange inspiration to do something like that? Love the character's and the narrative non-linear.
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  • Wouter Jonkers 1 year ago
    thank you
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  • Mathieu Beaulieu 1 year ago
    Amazing film!
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  • Claudio Salas plus 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • Mario Cavalli plus 1 year ago
    Wonderfully psychotic.
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  • DANIELS plus 1 year ago
    Listen. I watched the whole thing. You didn't fuck up once.
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  • Maxwell plus 1 year ago
    fuckin' amazing. cheers bro!
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  • Ampoule 1 year ago
    Wow!
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  • C. Saborío 1 year ago
    Hory shet
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  • Spence 1 year ago
    The man's a geeeeniusssss
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  • ZAFFI Pictures plus 1 year ago
    Saw this at Sundance...nice to see it online! Keep up the surrealism!
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  • Henry Kamp 1 year ago
    that was the coolest, funniest, most fucked up thing I have ever seen
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  • sharad kalawar 1 year ago
    some artists just get better with time. more violent, more curious, and yet more beautifully articulate than ever before. congratulations on the amazing work, and thanks for sharing.
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  • Pedro Roxo Nogueira 1 year ago
    I was waiting for this since forever!!! THANK YOU!! Mindblowing, idea clearing, brain washing, neuron screwing, I am whole now...
  • laura Ivette 1 year ago
    yeap... same here
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  • Tedb0t 1 year ago
    Wow. Jesus. This is one of the most upsetting and disturbing things I've ever witnessed.
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  • Roc Herms plus 1 year ago
    6 out of 5.
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  • seth benson 1 year ago
    A masterpiece
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  • Ian Higginbotham staff 1 year ago
    Soooo amazing!
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  • Ben Canfield 1 year ago
    It was better in da theater
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  • ThomasB 1 year ago
    I love you.
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  • jessica fenlon plus 1 year ago
    Creepy, insightful, fantastic. Thank you for this.
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  • Carey Dissmore plus 1 year ago
    pass
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  • Tony Trichanh 1 year ago
    Juste magnifique... Bordel!
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  • jon burgerman 1 year ago
    Sort of piece you know you will watch again and again before it's even over.
  • Jens Nikolaus 1 year ago
    Yes indeed.
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  • Birdo Studio plus 1 year ago
    Epic
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  • Niels Otten 1 year ago
    pure awesomeness
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  • Diego RB 1 year ago
    A masterpiece... of madness. Well done.
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  • StudioCronos[4] 1 year ago
    This is... Brilliant! Great work!
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  • Cecilia Velasco 1 year ago
    never has sadism been this funny to me. This film is oozing of you.... congratulations!!
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  • POLYTRON 1 year ago
    fuck.
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  • Jak Ritger 1 year ago
    You did it. My favorite from Ottawa for sure.
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  • Lily Cummings 1 year ago
    brilliant
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  • Jerome Boulbes 1 year ago
    That is brillant. And thank you for uploading it.
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  • Keith Ikeda-Barry 1 year ago
    Oh crap; this might be the best short film I've ever seen. Congratulations to you. I'm very, very impressed.
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  • Ben Malouf 1 year ago
    Thanks, David. Let me know when I can grow up and be you.
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  • SB 1 year ago
    AMAZING! Glad it's finally been released to the rest of the world. Just watching this has been an event in itself. Thank you!

    Blogged: wp.me/pSzLg-1EG
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  • Short of the Week plus 1 year ago
    Thanks for not stringing us non-festival going folks out. I'll add my voice to deluge—Genius.
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  • Scott Roberts 1 year ago
    David, thanks for making this available online! Hope to see you again in Chicago soon.
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  • Sinan İpek 1 year ago
    The most creative animation I've ever seen!
    Realy...
    But why didn't the banana peel eat the corpse of that old man?
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  • Chris Lew 1 year ago
    It's like "Rejected" for the 21st century!
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  • DieTapete 1 year ago
    Wow, this is just genius!!
    David OReilly is the new David Lynch.
  • rachel eliza 1 year ago
    <3
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  • Alexandre Cazals 1 year ago
    Thank you
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  • Brian Moore 1 year ago
    Another O'Reilly masterpiece. Well done.
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  • Beau Burrows plus 1 year ago
    Brilliant, I finally have something to play on my television this christmas instead of our usual fireplace footage.
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  • Omar Gudjonsson 1 year ago
    Amazing.
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  • Charles Pieper plus 1 year ago
    This is the greatest thing ever, yet, so far. WOWZERS!
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  • Nitrocorpz plus 1 year ago
    paranoid... awesome
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  • christopher makerewich 1 year ago
    wow, great film david. congrats man!
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  • SLACKCiRCUS plus 1 year ago
    Amazing. Thank you.
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  • Geoff Boothby / Landshark plus 1 year ago
    that was actually really incredible
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  • JINOOYA PARK 진우야 팕 plus 1 year ago
    cool.................
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  • Vladimir Tomin 1 year ago
    Proudly posted in madness section:
    motionmagazine.wordpress.com/
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  • shaley89 1 year ago
    AWESOME masterpiece..^^
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  • Darragh O'Connell 1 year ago
    ......... give me a minute to recover.
  • Calvin Wu 1 year ago
    lol
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  • ericp 1 year ago
    this is extremely effective at making me sad and upset. amazing storytelling but i reject the premise. there's no catharsis here, only an empty, mean sort of emotional violence.
  • Leonard Ritter 1 year ago
    I think that's his statement about the external world. And I agree.
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  • ratigan plus 1 year ago
    FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
    ....was the best thing I have ever seen.
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  • Daniela Petkovic 1 year ago
    COOOOL!

    Just shared on TISCO:
    facebook.com/pages/THIS-IS-SO-CONTEMPORARY/89359248691

    DP.
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  • Eusong Lee 1 year ago
    you killed me!
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  • Karpathia 1 year ago
    reflective achievement .
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  • sf17k 1 year ago
    The first time, I thought it was great.

    The second time, it started to make sense.
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  • Stephane CARCOPINO-TUSOLI plus 1 year ago
    Great !
    Wish you the best for your next project.
    Take care !
    ;)
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  • Dillon Bakke 1 year ago
    <3.
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  • Morgan James Chadwick plus 1 year ago
    wow. That was really fucking good!
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  • Claus Helfenschneider 1 year ago
    epic
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  • decollage.tv / Everything Visual plus 1 year ago
    A crazy masterpiece of art!

    We've shared it on our blog…
    everythingvisual.net/?p=3280
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  • sq2 1 year ago
    semiotic analysis please. most excellent.
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  • Eva Becker 1 year ago
    Far out as always.
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  • nacho yague 1 year ago
    ;D i really enjoyed it!.
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  • Dhruv Govil plus 1 year ago
    That was such random genius. Loved it completely.
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  • langustart plus 1 year ago
    Супер
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  • panic embryo 1 year ago
    Dark and delicious
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  • David Wilson plus 1 year ago
    Yes!
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  • metroccolis 1 year ago
    Mind-blowing. The most awesome 17 minutes of animation I've ever seen. Besides my other fav Please Say Something. Just WOW! From a true genius. Rejected 2011 :) So happy to finally being able to watch it. Over and over again.
  • sona jelinkova 1 month ago
    over and over again and still new meaning/contexts are appearing!
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