Tick Tack

A haunting, wordless shadow-puppet nightmare that feels like a fragile dream turning into a quiet tragedy.

Directed by

Jacques Brissot, René Laloux

Genres

Mystery, Animation

Overview

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.

How it feels

Eerie, dark, bleak and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Madness, death, isolation, fate

Content

Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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