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Breathdeath

"A Trageede In Masks"

1963-12-28
4.9
en 15m
Animation
A surrealistic fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of the dead. A film experiment that deals with the photoreality and the surrealism of life. A collage-animation that cuts up photos and newsreel film and reassembles them, producing an image that is a mixture of unexplainable fact (Why is Harpo Marx playing a harp in the middle of a battlefield?) with inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks death ... a parabolic parable.

Director

Stan VanDerBeek

Editor

Stan VanDerBeek

Music

Jay Watt

satire surrealism video collage cutout animation short film

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies