Sausage

One of the tastier offerings under consideration for the 2015 Oscar menu, Sausage is a charmingly old fashioned piece of animation that combines political sentiment with observational wit - and a hint of romance. It's set in a town square where a sausage seller and a woman with a bakery stall set up opposite one another, smiling and nodding in a way that suggests they've been doing this for years. Today, however, something is different. Enter a villain, complete with twirly moustache, in a shiny new fast food van. Therein, a machine turns meat paste into sausages; another glazes doughnuts in bright colours. Enthralled, the loocal people rush to check it out.

So begins a battle of wits, as the local tradespeople strive to come up with new marketing techniques that the villain can't compete with. There's a innocent charm to these, yet the animation delivers a measured dose of naughtiness in keeping with the style of the piece. there's also an entertaining exuberance about the villain's increasingly spectacular feats.

The moral here may be a simple one, but Sausage does simplicity well, understanding that what matters is the underlying quality of the product. It's a film where everything is perfectly in tune, Dan Radclyffe's music adding the final note to a beautiful composition.

Watch it below:

SAUSAGE - animated short film from robert grieves on Vimeo.