Girl + Ghost

I absolutely loved this wonderful short film from Australian director Nik Wansbrough. It uses many different mediums to tell the story and is just about as charming a film as you could imagine. It begins with an adorable little puppet show about a ghost and a girl...and soon you see that it's the ghost himself who's telling this story. Soon, however, you see the real world...though it looks incredibly unreal but in a good way. Using models and some very clever animation, you see a weird cartoon-like world with lots of happy people...and a sad ghost because all he can do is watch the world around him and dream that he could one day have a girlfriend of his own. I really don't want to say more because it would spoil the surprise. Suffice to say that it's very romantic, sweet and Wansbrough is one talented guy to come up with something this original and visually striking!