Someone once discovered that if you put arms and legs on a banana, a carton of milk, a potato or just about any food, really, you get a creature that’s just adorable no matter what it does.
In that vein, Kirsten Lepore‘s short film Sweet Dreams follows the adventures of a cupcake that dreams of a better life. Its cuteness is augmented by the fact that the film is silent, which makes it more precious, and because it’s made with stop-motion animation (harking back to the days before computers conquered animation and everything else). But let’s face it, the tale of a cupcake that builds a boat, sets sail and encounters a butternut squash (with further high jinks) is precious from the start.
The St. Louis International Film Festival screens Sweet Dreams in its Animated Shorts – Program 2 on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 7:15 p.m. at Frontenac Cinema, as well as Sunday, Nov. 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Tivoli Theatre.
Preview the so-adorable-it-hurts little movie here.
– Byron Kerman
This article appears in Nov 1-30, 2009.