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Mad Nest

1955 · 5 min

A dizzying five-minute collage of painted celluloid and flickering fragments that feels like flipping through a restless, playful mind.

Overview
Rapidly alternating fragments of women's portraits, planes, trains, revue dancers, animals, a motorcyclist with 'Ferdi' written on the back of his jacket and in between the artist himself and abstract images; scratches and wild drawings, among others. Colourful abstract and expressive images and texts, painted directly on the celluloid, are interspersed with images from the maker's other films; THE VIPERS and FERDI.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • madness
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour4
Realism1
Romance1
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity8
Emotional weight3

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Details

Directed by
Shinkichi Tajiri
Runtime
5 min
Country
Netherlands
Languages
No Language

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