Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.
Stars:
Crew: René Laloux (Director), René Laloux (Writer), Jacques Brissot (Development Manager), André Boucourechliev (Original Music Composer), René Laloux (Screenplay), Jean Oury (Story)
Country: France
Language: No Language
Studio: Service de la Recherche de l'ORTF, Radio-Télévision Française
Runtime: 9 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1957
IMDb: 4
Keywords:black and white, short film