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Married nicely with rhythms and music of Johannes Brahms, this short animation represents creativity and freedom of speech in a brilliant way. In an iterative and boring daily life of a rudimentary box-making factory, it shows an ordinary worker who simply doesn't want to be encompassed and ruled out of his own creative thoughts. However, he simply can not enforce his ideas on the whole scale but to find a way to be seen by his superior managers and the co-workers. Upon his resistance, the nonconformity will lead to defeat all regimented workers in the box-making factory and soon all the others are instantiating his thoughts. But wait a moment ! for a creative and nonconformist personality, it is fundamentally hard to carry on doing what is supposed to be done forever. It is simply impossible for this guy to be constrained in certain canvas as sooner or later his mind needs a change and the story telling of the movie will carry on and on open-ended.

This is a four-minute animated short film by Gonbad Caboud Studio. It's exciting to see such a cute work from Iran which shows that some mutations are happening!

Stripy is a picturesque combination of animation and music which is entertaining and nicely animated. Moreover, it's beautifully drawn and colored. Not A single word is spoken during the film but the music has energy and sweet charm, which is fitting with the tone of the story and the animates.

I personally highly recommend it for anyone who needs a bit of joy and delight. An appealing and resplendent animation to watch!

As Brahms' notes begin to play, a brush stroke is drawn. Music partners up with image and a visual symphony goes on. Out of the black lines and stripes, emerge the blocks of concrete, walls merge into buildings and suddenly appears an urban district; Staggering highways and the ever- increasing factories, with monotonous colors and the identical employees. Here's where the story begins.

Workers of a production line should draw stripes on boxes following a pattern which is agreed upon. A bored worker decides to jazz things up with a bit of a creativity, that is considered as synonymous with deviance in his society and so begins a series of evolutions and reforms that pave the path to a big change. A big change on the surface only, not deep enough to shake the base and infrastructures of the system and that, of course, explains the final shot. A box decorated with Trippy art, a new threat and another shock.

Perhaps portraying where the directors hail from, Stripy is a silent protest against a totalitarian government where intellectuals and creative individuals are imprisoned inside cages. Cages made out of homogeneous forms and ideas, cages made out of stripes.