Breathdeath
Director: Stan Vanderbeek
Starring: Not applicable
Year: 1964
Runtime: 15 mins.
Synopsis: Dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. 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. It is 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 the inexplicable act (Why is there a battlefield?). It is a black comedy, a fantasy that mocks at death … a parabolic parable. (From Canyon Cinema.)
DVD: None
Official Website: None
Underground Film Timeline: 1960 — 1969
Reviews: None
Awards: Bell Telephone Prize; Third Experimental Film Competition, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium (1964); Midwest Film Festival (1964); Ann Arbor Film Festival (1964)
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