Jump-start your Friday with an ample helping of psychedelic, hand-animated weirdness. This trippy one-minute short — titled “The Deep End” — was cooked up by Boston-based experimental animator Jake Fried, who relied on ink, coffee, white-out, and layer-upon-layer of illustrated canvas to create the downright disturbing phantasmagoria featured here.
You’ll want to watch this one full-screened, with speakers or headphones on; paired with his choice of ambiguously eldritch sounds, Fried’s animation makes for sixty of the most unsettling (albeit totally captivating) seconds we’ve sat through in some time.
