My Mom is an Airplane – Short Animation – by Yulya Aronova
Russian animator Yulya Aronova plays the concept straight, providing the film with an undiluted sense of wonder that is so pure it is disarming. Narrated by the offspring of our airplane mother, Aronova doesn’t so much make a kid’s film as she makes a child’s film—a work which follows the meandering contours and radical potential of a child’s imagination yet reflects the limitations of their nascent narrative skill. It is a difficult thing for adults to make films that seem truly child-like, but Aronova has done it.
