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From Burger It Came is a short animated film by Dominic Bisignano in which he is having a taped telephone conversation with his mother about anxieties they both had when he was a child.

One day while attending a new school, Dominic finds an ‘unattended burger’ sitting on a table in the cafeteria so he grabs it and eats it, later convincing himself the burger gave him AIDS. What follows is a very funny, yet still poignant, dialogue between himself and his mother about how a person might contract AIDS, why he wouldn’t have had it and a funny story about a toy in a cereal box, including his mother’s concerns about him being taken away by Moonies. [Moonies being the derogatory term used in the 70s/80s to describe members of the Unification Church, which was generally considered to be a be a child-napping cult.]

The animation in this movie is done in various different styles, which he explains in one of the videos below, indicating he had been in animation school at the time and wanted to experiment. Even though the animation and storytelling style is more than a little eclectic it really works for this short, especially for a short that is attempting to deal with highly charged political issues from a more grassroots, personal standpoint. It’s 7 minutes very well spent as it gets you thinking about how you felt about those issues at the time considering your own age and context. Frankly, I thought it was brilliant.

Check out Dominic’s site here and definitely catch From Burger It Came if you get the opportunity.

Question was about the many animation style in the movie and his influences:

Questions was about his next project and his outtakes: