This is Brilliant: The Cocktail Party (2006)

Here, in its entirety, is the brilliant The Cocktail Party, written by Bizarro novelist/short fiction/everything else D. Harland Wilson.

I laughed almost straight through.

This is one of the best parables about human aggression, and particularly "linguistic aggression," I have seen.

Language itself is hostile. The colonizer is the colonized.

Is there a name for that style of animation? I mean that sketch-in-progress, scratchy type animation. I remember seeing it first in the A-Ha video "Take on Me" (one of MTV's earliest runaway smash videos and one everyone seems to remember).

He co-wrote this with the film's director, Brandon Duncan.

Factoid: D. Harlan Wilson is a direct descendant of James Fenimore Cooper.


YouTube notes:

Award winning animated short based on the short story of the same name by D. Harlan Wilson.

Awards:
Best of Show - Fear No Film Festival 2007
Best Student Film - Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee 2007
Platinum CGI/Mixed Media Animation - WorldFest Houston 2007
Best Animation - AceFest 2007

Festival Selections & Showings:
SheVaCon 15
ICFA 28
FantasyCon 2007
Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee 2007
WorldFest Houston 2007
Fear No Film Festival 2007
ACE Film Festival 2007
Comic-Con San Diego 2007