The Present

Watch "The Present" (2014) online on iFILM — a four-minute animated short by Jacob Frey, made as a graduation film at Animationsinstitut in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

A boy is glued to his video game, screen-addicted and completely shut off from the world. His mother brings him an unexpected gift. What happens next is better experienced than described. The short delivers its point without a single line of dialogue: it is a quiet, precise argument about avoidance and connection, and the ending lands harder than most feature films manage in two hours. Stream "The Present" (2014) online on iFILM.