One Man Band

One Man Band (2005) is a Pixar animated short you can watch online on iFILM. It runs just five minutes and uses no dialogue at all. Directors Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez spin a wordless tale around a single coin and two greedy street performers.

A peasant girl named Tippy walks up to the piazza fountain, ready to drop her coin and make a wish. Then two buskers spot the prize. Bass works horns and drums; his rival Treble answers with strings. Each tries to charm the coin into his own tip jar, the recital turns into a brawl, and little Tippy is left in the crossfire — with a payoff nobody sees coming. The US short earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. Watch One Man Band (2005) online on iFILM.