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Strips

2009 · 6 min

A playful, teasing little experiment that keeps you watching closely as it strips images down to their essentials.

Directed by
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Overview
Masculine noun, shortened form of striptease. From "strip", to remove, to take away, and "tease", to entice, to tempt. And then all this in plural.

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Directed by
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • deception
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour4
Realism4
Romance3
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight3

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Directed by
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Runtime
6 min

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