Caravans of animation riding into the future.
I can't say that I spend all my nights up sleepless worrying over the future of short-form animation; it is, however, easy to say that it's hard to know where new audiences will come for any commercially marginalized form of film, be it a three-minute short or a three-hour arthouse epic. So hat-tip to Cartoon Brew for pointing me to the Puck Cinema Caravana, a small RV-type vehicle that rolls around Spain, inviting seven people at a time to come in and watch "a wide selection of international films from all around the world that have been made throughout time" you won't see on your TV. This is a pretty awesome idea, if not entirely unique: as pointed out in the comments, there's also -- on a larger scale -- The Groovy Movie Picture House and Estonia's Kinobus. This is, nonetheless, a neat little model that bears further investigation. To...
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