Wildly successful on the festival circuit (94 screenings and many awards), the short film “At First Sight” by Dutch artist/animator Sjaak Rood is finally available online in all its splattery, visceral, and emotional glory.

Here’s Sjaak Rood’s synopsis: “A man in a van and a woman in a car are heading for a head-on collision. They hit the breaks just in time and come to a screeching standstill. To be able to continue their journey one of them will have to reverse and let the other pass. Both are however too stubborn to swallow their pride. A life story begins.”
 
 

 
Director/animator: Sjaak Rood
Script: Sjaak Rood
Production: Paul de Heer

Music: Martin Fondse, Jörg Brinkmann, Claudio Puntin
Music recording/mix: Paul Pouwer – Power Sound Studio
Sound: Sjaak Rood, Jeroen Nadorp – Bob Kommer Studios
Voices: Sjaak Rood, Beatrice van der Poel

Festival distribution: Ursula van den Heuvel