It’s time for the 2024 edition of the Weirdcademy Awards, the premier (only) awards contest exclusively focused on weird films, chosen by weird film fans. That means shorts as well as features. We’ve collected all five nominees for 2024′s Weirdest Short of the Year together in one place, for ease of voting. You can cast a vote for your favorite until March 1. Choose carefully, because you can only vote once. This year’s slate features party-hearty doppelgängers, cotton ball cookies, psychic pet science, an animated plague of mutations, and an eerie minimalist music video from an old friend.
You can watch all the nominees in full below before voting (shorts may contain adult language, dead pets, cartoon blood, and unsanitary cookie preparation):
“The Answers to the Questions” by David Lynch
“Coreys” by Dan Streit
“Opulent Round Edible Object” by Evan Forrest Mann
“The Rainbow Bridge” by Dmitri Simakis
“Uncanny Alley” by Rodrigo Goulão de Sousa
1) Uncanny Alley
2) The Rainbow Bridge
3) The Coreys / Opulent Round Edible Object
4) The Answers to the Questions
Keep giving Lynch a shot and it’s always disappointing, way too artsy-fartsy as usual. -.-
It pains me to say, so close to his unfortunate demise, that the Lynch entry struck as unworthy to be nominated.
Esoteric? Yes. Captivating? Definitely. Clearly outside any current norms? Dude, it’s Lynch.
Weird? Hardly. Feels below 366 standards – at least as viewed from the oddity I call “my perspective.”
Still, a tip of my hat for sharing that, and all the others, though. Never thought my time wasted checking out interesting artists’ work.