A Family Portrait
Leaving October 31
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5m 25s
Directed by Joseph Pierce • 2010 • United Kingdom
A family photo session takes a sinister turn in this darkly surreal animated short, which looks past the forced smiles to reveal the monstrous tensions roiling beneath.
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