Breathdeath (1963)

12/28/1963 (US) • 15m

Animation

A Trageede In Masks

Overview

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.

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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

satire

surrealism

video collage

cutout animation

short film

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