At just seven minutes, To: Gerard packs a full emotional arc into a single afternoon at a post office counter.
What is To: Gerard about?
To: Gerard centers on an elderly postal worker named Gerard whose real passion is magic, a hobby he never gave up even as his working life pulled him elsewhere. When a young girl comes into his path, Gerard uses a small piece of that magic to turn an ordinary moment into something memorable for her, brightening her day through a simple trick rather than anything elaborate. The short builds its story around that one encounter, using animation rather than a large cast or a long runtime to land its warmth. It is a small, contained story rather than a sprawling one, and that scale is part of its point.
About the cast
The brief for To: Gerard lists no credited cast; as an animated short, its characters are voiced or realized without a billed acting ensemble in the usual sense. Director Taylor Meacham is the credited filmmaker behind the piece, responsible for shaping both the story and its visual style within a very short runtime.
Context & significance
To: Gerard is a 2020 American animated short that sits across drama and family territory, aimed at a wide audience rather than a niche one. Short-format animation like this typically compresses its entire arc, setup, turn and payoff, into a handful of minutes, which is part of why the runtime here lands at just seven minutes rather than a feature length. The premise, an older man's unfulfilled passion resurfacing to help someone else, is a compact, generous kind of story that suits the short form well, and it asks little of a viewer's time while still landing a full arc.
Watching To: Gerard on Ktime
To: Gerard is available on K-Time with a free account login, and the film itself is included with a paid subscription, no separate purchase required. A Persian dub is available for this short, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a fully localized version, all through K-Time's Farsi-language interface built with the Persian-speaking diaspora in mind.