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Gymnopédies

Name: Gymnopédies
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 1965-01-01
Duration: 6 min
Rating: 5.8

★ 5,8 /10 (19 Votes)

1965 EN 6 min

Overview

Animation. The theme is Weightlessness. Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings, also from tensions and gravitational limitations. A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film. Such a portrait seems necessary from time to time to remind us that equilibrium and harmony are possible, and that we will not dissolve into a jelly if we allow ourselves to relax into them: A horseman rides through the landscape, through the town, but never arrives anywhere in particular. An acrobat swings on a rope above a canal in Venice, and is content just to swing there. Nothing threatens to disturb them. This film is a total contrast to the Kafka-like oddities of Eastern European animation. —Canyon Cinema

Release date

01/01/1965

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