# 8 | Top 10 2025 | Toast

A five minute waterfall of automatic cadence about how we, as humans, argue and negotiate with ourselves every morning over the simple task of getting out of bed...and what massive consequences that seemingly small decision has over our lives. SUBSCRIBE for Your Daily Dose of Inspiration ➠ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa2QppVwCuivaWe5qfVY_Q SUBMIT your film ➠ https://filmshortage.com/submit/ A FILM SHORTAGE SELECTION "Toast" is an experimental fantasy/animated short film by Douglas Riggs More from the director: "The origin of the project is the written poem and is in fact stream of consciousness. It's ironic that something so effortless in the beginning, compounded into pulling in all my usual commercial production suspects for something much larger and complex. But I think that's why it's special. One morning, I had that phenomenon of witnessing my own thoughts as a third party. The mind goes and you simply stand present to it. Like sitting by a flowing river. Maybe you see some fish in that river and you're compelled to catch them. The rhythm was not a deliberate thought, it just happened to come out that way when I looked up from scribbling. The cadence was naturally flowing from my brain to my pen and it took all of 5 minutes or so. At the risk of sounding self-important, that's why I went to the trouble of creating visuals for it. I believed it to be a form of pure expression, free of my frontal lobe getting in the way to critique or edit. I caught a fish in the river of my thoughts." Full interview on Film Shortage soon #FilmShortage #Animation #Fantasy FILM SHORTAGE ON SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://instagram.com/filmshortage Twitter: https://twitter.com/filmshortage Facebook: https://facebook.com/filmshortage Website: https://filmshortage.com Film Shortage is home to the next generation of filmmakers, premiering some of the best and diverse short films online