a woman. a train. a moth or butterfly . a trip. and a lot of revelation. you admire the high quality stop motion animation. and each detail of story. you discover a creepy trip. and a lot of symbols. and an unique character - the eyes as the best part -. many explanations. each more than correct. dark poetry. and the air of parable. a question. about people and things and life. about phobias and incertitude and about freedom. nothing more. all in a kind of artistic gem. because this short animation is a complete work. all is perfect. like a question of the Sphynx. many answers who reflects the viewer. many suppositions. ad the end as key. to yourself. this is it .

strange option for its viewers. and real useful. because it seems not have a subject. but this fact is only a detail .because you could be one of its characters. the story is a trip in a large yard of significances, cultural references, it could have so many explanations than becomes an adventure. it is easy to describe it as a labyrinth but , after its end, you understand to be more. the great animation, the chains of details , the each gesture and the single word, the terror birth by profound ambiguity are pieces who defines it. a film for great patience and large imagination. a magic one for the feeling after its final. and for the special form of sympathy for madame Tutli - Putli.

This short animated movie shows has style and impressive graphics. Characters are modeled on real actors who are credited and this gives personality to each of them. Using real filmed eyes (as I understand) also helps to create a very striking effect.There is no story really here, but just a fragment of life and fantasy located in the 30s in a train trip in the immense Canadian landscape that somehow slides into mystery, imagination and dreams. It works well for the first 12-13 minutes out of the 17 of the movie, but somehow the whole stuff gets tired and not that I expected a conclusion but I felt the ending is inconclusive not from the story-telling but from an artistic point of view. Anyway, the folks who made this movie are real artists and trying their talent on a longer and more consistent film could be an interesting proposal.

I can't say this was not challenging for me, visually speaking, because it was. This is the work of really competent people, in every technical aspect. I specially enjoyed the placement of real filmed eyes over the built puppets. It added a lot to the hole mood. The sets are really fantastic, check all the different packages, clothes, accessories, and all the things stuffed in the train. Check how the characters were developed, how their expressions are really intentional. And than check the editing, with special note to the way sound effects (and music) are mixed with the image composition. This is really good work. But it didn't stay with me, because it failed into challenging my imagination as it challenged my visual understanding of the scenes, sets, characters and pacing. In the end, this left nothing inside, it didn't give me much to dream or even think about, even though it was clearly aimed at provoking those feelings. It even allowed my imagination to mentally review and re enjoy other films i had just seen, and when this happens to me, it usually happens because the images in front of me fail to capture my attention. Of course this may be a matter of personal choices, or finding in the images displayed elements to which one personally relates. I didn't relate to what i've seen.My evaluation: 2/5 it may work for you, it didn't for me.http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com