Commentary Watch the “Mindful Mr. Sloth” on Epoch Cinema here.
We live in an age where attention spans are at an all-time low and can be measured in milliseconds. Devices with screens are all too available to children at younger and younger ages, which makes it easy to check on the amount of “likes” people have on this or that app, or social media accounts.
Directed by Andy T. Jones, the short film “Mindful Mr. Sloth” is based on an adorable children’s picture book of the same name by Katy Hudson. Like the book, this short animated film is a gentle reminder that sometimes it’s fine to simply stop and enjoy the present moment, lest we miss out on so many of the things that are going on around us….