Logorama

Logorama, an animated short film by the French collective H5, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Animated Shorts category.

Logorama is set in a clean Utopian LA, a branded landscape, where even the people are logos: AOL men, Bic men, the cops are Michelin men. Ronald McDonald is a badass with an automatic weapon, Big Boy is a snarky truant. Logorama supplies a dose of popular movie mechanisms: car chases, shoot outs, Tarantino-esque conversations, and curvy models. Cataclysm ensues, that can only be inspired by absurd apocalypse plots rampant in Hollywood today.

Here it is in two parts: