An animated short film about a man's collapsing sanity, featuring the voices of Paul Giamatti, Jason Mantzoukas, and Kate McKinnon

GIANT SLOTH is a surrealist tale drawing as much on influences like Fellini and (the main character's namesake) Luis Buñuel as it does animation from the 1960s and 70s.

I backed this Kickstarter project on the basis of Paul Giamatti starring. He is one of my favourite actors and he has deadpan humour.

The Story

The museum where Gordon Boonewell works - The Benchley Museum of Cultural and Natural History - has fallen on hard times. Attendance is down and they've been in the red for ages. So it's no surprise when the museum privatizes... no surprise to anyone other than Gordon.

But Gordon is a curator of the past, a man set in his ways. Ways that are being systematically erased, dumping him into a world he's willfully ignored. Unable to cope with the upheaval alone, Gordon begins to suffer hallucinations. Or at least he hopes they're hallucinations...

About Scandinavia and the World:
It started in 2009 by the artist known as Humon, a comical look at how countries humanise one another and has grown to over 300 comic strips.

About the Animations:
Scandinavia and the World will be brought to life in these funny, thoughtful, and somewhat educational animations, voiced by Stanton Nichols (and others) and beautifully animated by Stephen Leotti.
On their website and YouTube channel

Nikola Tesla was one of the smartest people in history. You can find his discoveries in your lights, computer, TV, radio, cell phone, hair dryer, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, car… even in the satellite that transmit this message to you... but still he is unknown to many people. He dedicated his life to the well-being of humanity, trying to make life on earth better for all and always emphasized the importance of environmental protection ... more than a century ago.