Short film
Breathdeath
1963 · 15 min
A jittery, dreamlike collage of cut-out photos and newsreel scraps that unsettles and amuses in equal measure.
- Directed by
- Stan VanDerBeek
- Genres
- Animation
- Tagline
- 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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- Directed by
- Stan VanDerBeek
- Genres
- Animation
