"Uncle" is a black-and-white animated short film from Australia. The writer and director here is Adam Elliot and he made this one back in 1996, which means it has its 20th anniversary this year. Elliot received a nice deal of awards attention for it and so he went on making films about other male family members afterward before finally moving to his Oscar-winning short film "Harvie Krumpet". Comparing this one here to the latter shows that he had a long way to go still. I personally did not really enjoy this 6-minute film I have to admit. It was too dark and depressing (especially with what happened to his aunt) and the story-telling just is not good enough to make it touching really. Also, it was neither funny nor entertaining. I will check out Elliot's follow-up films soon and I hope these are better. The narration did not really impress me either. As for "Uncle", I don't recommend the watch.
Review of Uncle
