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Breathdeath (1963)
Directed by Stan VanDerBeek
“A Trageede In Masks”
Animation · 15m
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.
Crew
- Director
- Stan VanDerBeek
- Editor
- Stan VanDerBeek
Details
- Release date
- 1963-12-28
- Runtime
- 15m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America