{"id":1923,"date":"2014-07-03T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2014-07-03T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:04:25","slug":"great-animated-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/07\/great-animated-short.html","title":{"rendered":"Great Animated Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRAGEDIES like the Japanese-American internment during World War II can be hard to render artistically. So I&#8217;m especially surprised that a college student turned out a short animated film as powerful and understated as <em>Yamashita<\/em>. I met the student, Hayley Foster, recently to discuss her work as an animator and her ambitions to do more projects that look at issues of social justice. (She also spoke about her love of the films of Hayao Miyazaki such as <em>Spirited Away<\/em>.)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phpThumb-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"phpThumb\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phpThumb-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phpThumb-360x200.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/phpThumb.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foster, who now works at Warner Bros., is one to watch. <a title=\"Hayley Foster story\" href=\"http:\/\/magazine.lmu.edu\/archive\/2014\/short-animation-film-nets-student-academy-award\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is my story for the online magazine of her alma mater, Loyola Marymount University. It includes a link to the film&#8217;s trailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAGEDIES like the Japanese-American internment during World War II can be hard to render artistically. So I&#8217;m especially surprised that a college student turned out a short animated film as powerful and understated as Yamashita. I met the student, Hayley Foster, recently to discuss her work as an animator and her ambitions to do more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[629,76,256],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-animation","7":"category-film","8":"category-japan","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}