Bingo

Bingo is another animated short film by Chris Landreth. This short is his first film that puts him on the map as a respected (and brilliant) animator. It’s based on an improv skit he saw at a comedy club, where this large man is defiantly calling a small and inferior man, “Bingo”. Bingo is a surreal short about an insecure man who is in the middle of a circus ring and is relentlessly being called “bingo” by various fantastical characters. From clowns with growing ferocity and enlarging heads, a little girl with endless popping balloons, to a tree made of money, the man in the end submits to the fact that he is indeed, Bingo. This leads to the “stage” disappearing into a concrete room, and we realize that this was all an experiment.