The Wire (a.k.a. "The Man Plugged Into The Wall")
Jan 24, 2019 5:52:30 GMT
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Post by James on Jan 24, 2019 5:52:30 GMT
This has been found. It was a fun search. Thank you.
Animated Short Film - "The Man Plugged Into The Wall." (actual name unknown)
I think Sometime between 1994 and 1998 (Most likely 95-97), Cartoon network ran a one time special showcasing various short films done with alternative animation styles. They ran it for one night, repeatedly. The short films featured had won awards at film festivals or something like that. I barley remember anything about it and can't find any information on it.
One of the short films was so striking that it's stayed with me to this day almost 24 years later. It had a modern style of animation. It was very minimalist, done with just a few simple black lines that create shapes and impressions without details. A man in a suit sitting at a desk, a picture of his family on the desk. A Southern or African American narrator (He has a draw) talks about him and his life.
The man finds a chord attached to his foot, and yanks on it. He's never noticed it before, but he notices it goes down the hallway. He follows it gathering it up as he walks. It leads him to an actual wall outlet where he's apparently plugged in. He pulls the plug from the wall, everything fades to white, and the narrator says something like "And no one ever heard from him again".
This was troubling to me as a kid, and I've often thought about it when life seems weird and existentially strange to me. The whole brain in a vat sort of thing. I'm very interested and motivated to find it. If you have any recollection, or memory of what i'm talking about, or access to any archives I don't know about, please leave me a reply.
Please upvote my post on reddit. That would help a lot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/agud34/tomtshortfilm90s_the_man_plugged_into_the_wall/
Thanks for reading
~James Calico
Animated Short Film - "The Man Plugged Into The Wall." (actual name unknown)
I think Sometime between 1994 and 1998 (Most likely 95-97), Cartoon network ran a one time special showcasing various short films done with alternative animation styles. They ran it for one night, repeatedly. The short films featured had won awards at film festivals or something like that. I barley remember anything about it and can't find any information on it.
One of the short films was so striking that it's stayed with me to this day almost 24 years later. It had a modern style of animation. It was very minimalist, done with just a few simple black lines that create shapes and impressions without details. A man in a suit sitting at a desk, a picture of his family on the desk. A Southern or African American narrator (He has a draw) talks about him and his life.
The man finds a chord attached to his foot, and yanks on it. He's never noticed it before, but he notices it goes down the hallway. He follows it gathering it up as he walks. It leads him to an actual wall outlet where he's apparently plugged in. He pulls the plug from the wall, everything fades to white, and the narrator says something like "And no one ever heard from him again".
This was troubling to me as a kid, and I've often thought about it when life seems weird and existentially strange to me. The whole brain in a vat sort of thing. I'm very interested and motivated to find it. If you have any recollection, or memory of what i'm talking about, or access to any archives I don't know about, please leave me a reply.
Please upvote my post on reddit. That would help a lot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/agud34/tomtshortfilm90s_the_man_plugged_into_the_wall/
Thanks for reading
~James Calico
