"Gagarin" is an Oscarnominated Russian short film from 1994 and at 3.5 minutes it is really short. The director and writer here is Alexij Kharitidi and he was in his mid 30s when he shot this film over 20 years ago. Sadly, he did not manage to build a great filmmaking career on his work here and I must say I am surprised because for a 200-second film this was a pretty decent achievement. A caterpillar crawls into a badminton ball and gets dizzy fairly quickly being glad the second he got out of it. But he does not know yet what life has in store for him. It was nothing really outstanding, but we had a cute little story here, a likable main character and I also somewhat like the retro animation style. I would even say that I enjoyed this one here more than the Wallace & Gromit film that beat this one here in terms of the Oscars. Go see it, there's millions of worse ways to spend 3.5 minutes.
Review of Gagarin
