is the way the fingers bend backwards just a tiny bit more than real fingers do

The hand and finger movement was extremely sensitive and quite powerful... I did not notice anything inhuman about it, quite the opposite, it was too human..  and his voice over... wow.

the tracking was over the top though... IMO it is the obvious heir to Duchamp's Étant donnés, 21st century version on crack.

The video was an animation, and non animation, using the HIV virus as a cartoon bouncing ball, running through the whole piece.....  what was amazing about it was that it did not make me or other viewers get shut down because of the heavy content (HIV, blood death), it was oddly upbeat, darkly so... the video transcended the subject matter, so it was not about HIV... what it was about was something you can not explain..  IOW it was art...  

But I didn't like it. She doesn't dance, just squiggles. The hands are by far the best part - they're pretty good. The figure's exposed joints are distracting. It all looks programmed. Impaled on a pole and facing a mirror it never moves its feet. Facial recognition? looks more like motion sensors.

The point is this is not an issue of money, congress has always been willing to put funds in the budget for the VA.  The problem is something else.

Both sides are accusing the other side of politics.  The majority dems in the Senate complain about not being able to pass a monster bill that is only partly about funding mostly non health issues for vets (not that those are not important, just most of it has nothing to do with vets' health issues.  The majority pubs in the House complain about Sanders bashing a bill that would make it easier to fire union VA employees who are fudging stats to get bonuses (and possibly making it easier to fire union employees in general).

For someone like me who is a qualified Vietnam Era service connected disabled vet I have to wonder why the Senate does not bring up a clean bill that only deals with vet benefits and does not try to claim it is being paid for by savings from wars we are no longer fighting and I have to wonder why Sanders is delaying action on a bill to make it easier to fire VA employees who are hiding the true delay time vets have to wait for care while submitting false numbers to get a bonus.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A divided Senate on Thursday derailed Democratic legislation providing $21 billion for medical, education and job-training benefits for the nation's veterans, as the bill fell victim to election-year disputes over spending and whether to slap sanctions on Iran.

With each party coveting the allegiance of the country's 22 million veterans and their families, Republicans and Democrats blamed each other for turning the effort into a chess match aimed at forcing politically embarrassing votes.

In fact, American forces never outnumbered those of the British Empire in the field until July 1944. Even in the war with Japan, the two biggest land battles involved the British and not the Americans -- Imphal, a British military citadel in eastern India which was besieged by the Japanese between March and July of 1944, and Kohima (May-July 1944), in which the British 14th Army commanded by Lt. Gen. William Slim scored a decisive and overwhelming victory over two Japanese armies, drove them from India and lifted the siege of Imphal.

But as MKS points out without the Eastern Front the Allies would have had a much harder row to hoe.  Hitler and Stalin both signed a non aggression pact.

Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, and Allison Janney all deserve nominations at the very least. Beau Bridges too I think.

It's hard to believe how really recently this kind of work was being done, how little people understood about how their own bodies worked, or how their partners' bodies worked.

It does seem difficult to get SOME guys to admit that women are beat up, raped, harassed, and abused more than men.  Lots of men get hurt too though.

It is difficult to remember that before all of us found sanctuary and shelter (whatever that is for each of us), it was a long string of failures, and hurts, and abuse, and damage, and even simple misunderstandings hurt.

But I do take notice of "little" things like this.
I have found, in my experience, that they are often "tells" about a greater truth.

For example, a media that is comfortable with calling a grown woman someone's "girlfriend", is not going to shock me when they start referring to Hillary Clinton's manner of dress, or her cleavage as they did the last time around.

People and institutions often give themselves away in these little events.

Imo.

I see it usually when some muck-de-muck male athlete shows up with a female companion. She is referred to as the "girlfriend".

In virtually no other circumstance is it permitted to refer to women as girls - but here, no one raises an eyebrow.

I get the distinct impression that the media like to get into the pants of those upon whom they are reporting.

It is another example of the media telling us what to think. They grab the opportunity to elaborate upon the simple fact that Mr. X arrived somewhere, and Ms. Z arrived with him. She has a name, presumably.

Of course, there is the situation where a man arrives somewhere, or is having dinner or something, with another man. Then what? The description of "boyfriend" does not usually accompany the story. They are described as two individuals, and their relationship, sexual or otherwise, is not part of the story. At least in my experience that is the case.

So I don't like "girlfriend" on two counts. It is sexist on its face.
And it is the press amplifying upon the simple facts before them. Both practices are widespread in the media. The latter tendency is especially rampant when we are to be given facts about countries or leaders or politics. The media usually slip in an adjective or two to tell us what we are supposed to think or feel about an event that is being reported.

One write up plus video that just knocks your socks off, watching the director Sharon and her Chief of Staff lie and lie and lie.  Read the story, this isn't Sharon's first exposing of her "zeroing out".  She did it at another VA and everyone knew about it, even a union rep.