Help me remember the name of this acclaimed recent indie film.
December 3, 2008 12:07 PM   Subscribe

Help me remember the name of this acclaimed recent indie film.

Within the past couple months, I read somewhere online about a new independent film. I'm not sure if it had won an award or just gotten a lot of praise from critics--I seem to remember the phrase "film of the year" being used. I remember that the film used animation (maybe along with, or over top of video footage) and dealt with both personal and philosophical issues. It may have been compared to Waking Life or I just might have thought it sounded similar. I think that the director was Asian-American, and maybe the film talked about the Asian-American immigrant experience and ideas of reincarnation. I believe the website of the film had a brown background with an image of a many-legged insect crawling across it. Do you know of any films this could be? Thanks!
posted by overglow to Media & Arts (4 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: Half-Life directed by Jennifer Phang.

There's a story that's the second piece on this page.
posted by faunafrailty at 12:17 PM on December 3, 2008


This is probably not it, but the new animated documentary about the 1982 Lebanon war, Waltz with Bashir, has been mentioned in the same breath as Waking Life lately as both films use rotascoping techniques.
posted by hot soup girl at 12:43 PM on December 3, 2008


Not Asian-American, but.. Persepolis ?
posted by Hugobaron at 2:11 PM on December 3, 2008


Response by poster: Thanks faunafrailty!
posted by overglow at 2:23 PM on December 3, 2008


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