Nitehawk Cinema in Brooklyn has the very cool policy of accepting short film submissions to play in between movies; this beautiful, surreal animation short by Abbey Luck, The Observer, really caught my eye.

A curious citizen triumphs over the reign of a greedy king by spreading the word of a new way of life. After the passive village-folk are poisoned by the king’s ideological vomit, the Observer seeks truth in a mysterious forest.

This unique look of this film was created by cutting acrylic glass sheets into shapes with a laser cutter and layering them on top of a custom-made light box.