Endless Cookie
This vibrant and surreal animated documentary dives into the story of two half-brothers—one Indigenous, the other white—exploring identity, heritage, and connection.
Two brothers’ phone conversations about their past and roots explode into a colourful, animated world and twisted Canadian humour. Seth Scriver spent nine whole years animating his discussions with his brother, who lives on the other side of the country, using ordinary Adobe softwares. In the imaginative animation, the other conversationalist can be represented as a large nipple, or the family’s dog replaced with a peanut wearing a monocle. The spirit and the music is pure punk rock.
On the background however, the film addresses matters like belonging to an Indigenous communit and being Canadian. Peter, 16 years older than his brother, is half Cree, and in the past, his soul-searching has brought him to building a tipi, and practising trapping in the woods, where all didn’t go as planned. The Indigenous people’s lifestyle isn’t exoticised, but portrayed through their ability to find solutions to the challenges they face living close to nature. Dry, anecdote-based humour completes the film’s colourful, cartoonish world. Finally, a talking cosmic cookie pays a visit and offers words of wisdom. The film won the Contrechamp Grand Prix at Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Paavo Ihalainen (translated by Vilja Hynynen)
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