If I Was God

Name: If I Was God
Uploaded: 2016-12-15T11:01:01Z
Duration: 501 s
Description: Sitting through a biology class, a twelve-year-old boy drifts into a daydream of godlike powers, imagining how he would use them to impress the girl he likes and get even with the bullies who torment him. A comic stop-motion short about the wild logic of a kid's imagination.

Year listed: 2016

Title at the original source

“If I Was God” | The New Yorker Screening Room

Published at the original source: 2016-12-15. This is the upload date, which may differ from the film’s release.

9 min · English · Animation · Comedy

Sitting through a biology class, a twelve-year-old boy drifts into a daydream of godlike powers, imagining how he would use them to impress the girl he likes and get even with the bullies who torment him. A comic stop-motion short about the wild logic of a kid's imagination.

Why we picked it

Oscar-nominated animator Cordell Barker's stop-motion comedy, presented by The New Yorker's Screening Room. A boy daydreams through biology class about godlike powers, and the results are gloriously petty.

Bullying, fantasy imagery and comic peril. Source-based review; not rated for children.

Source: The New Yorker

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