Breathdeath (1963)

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.

Released Dec. 28, 1963 15 min None+

Genres: Animation, Short

Keywords: tmdb.satire, tmdb.video-collage, tmdb.short-film, mdblist.imdb-short, tmdb.surrealism, tmdb.cutout-animation, imdb.cutout-animation + 8 more, imdb.newspaper-clipping, imdb.speech-bubble, imdb.extreme-close-up, imdb.skull, imdb.dancing, imdb.negative-footage, imdb.collage, imdb.experimental-short