It's creating interest for informers.
Information creating interest for performers.
Performance informs interest.
Interest drives creative information.
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All three of these were great; the whole set of shorts nominated were in fact! My personal favorite though was the French entry "A Sister." It'd be great to interview the director at some if possible.

OK, mind BLOWN! Damn I can't even imagine how much work that was!

Nicely written article, especially in the latter "think-piece" paragraphs. A couple of perfect examples how Great actually gets done is in many of the early Pixar movies. Now granted they didn't actually get to extend the deadlines (they just worked twice as many hours) but that didn't matter! In their first three movies they decided to hit a full Reset when they looked at where they were going and realized it just wan't working.
In each case, the risk of re-starting with a radically updated or new script was literally going to make or break the company. They were brutally honest about their own work and when it wasn't 5 Star, they put everything on hold and practically started over.
Of course, they were also independent of Disney at the time...

Ok, good job, but it's ONE single shot and they had thousands, and most were a lot more complicated to achieve. It also took 7 days, which is not nothing!
The biggest drawback in movie was often the actors themselves betrayed their age mostly by reaction time and the like. They felt older no matter how well done the de aging worked.

This has been a major problem for YEARS, and these guys are sadly just one of many that have produced incredible (and extremely profitable: for the movie!) and then gone under. The big studios hardly notice and pretty obviously like it this way. VFX houses need to become linked to the screen-actors guild or or something and start demanding honest pay for honest work.