Stoned for Christmas

"Stoned for Christmas" is a multimedia whirlwind and a love letter to weed. Built like a blunt rotation, Stoned for Christmas cycles through a weed courier’s Christmastime deliveries with each vignette in a different style of animation. The result is a delightfully surrealist trip, one that represents the chaos of NYC, the ups and downs of a high, and the unique unpredictability of navigating the world while trans.

Inspired by the scrappy cartoons that raised and inspire writer-director-producer Morgan Young today, the shifting styles of “Stoned for Christmas” abandon continuity for joyful visual variation. The short is an experiment that shows how stylistic shifts can serve and enhance a story, rather than disrupt it. The piece is a reflection of where Morgan came from: a colorful melding of my experience in children’s animation and my stoner comedy sensibilities, grown in an NYC community garden. 

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