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Breathdeath

1963 · 0h 15m · Animation · United States of America

A Trageede In Masks

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.

Directed by
Stan VanDerBeek
5.9Smart score

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cutout animationsatireshort filmsurrealismvideo collage

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