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"Snowballs" (why this title?) is an American 4.5-minute live action short film, so this one had its 5th anniversary last year. And the writer and director is Harmony Korine from California who may be known to most for his work "Spring Breakers". If you have seen that one or maybe some other (short) films from him, then you know what to expect here, namely something extremely bizarre. You see teenager-sized characters in heavy pompous Indian outfits, Indian in the sense of Native Americans, not the Asian guys. But there is something wrong about them. Their voices and the fact that they apparently float in the air to relax shows us that they are supernatural characters, aliens perhaps. And what we perceive as masks could be their real faces. But from what we see in this movie, they don't seem to be evil. At least they visit an old oddball character on his birthday to give him some company, probably a loner. There is no coherent string in this film and it is much more about the atmosphere and the bizarre situations than about some kind of plot or story line. But like I said earlier: If this is not the first Korine film you see, then you won't be surprised. Colors also always play a big role in his works, also in here. He is a bit of a unique director, I'll give him that. But still, this one here was just on a level where it did not really make me curious about any aspect or character, which is why I did not enjoy it like I enjoyed his previously mentioned career-defining full feature film for example. It's a thumbs-down. Don't watch.