A film animation experiment in metaphoric imagery. This is a surrealistic garden where the earth seethes with strange, unusual shapes and activity, accelerated in movement, compressed in time. Insect-like creatures dart under and over the sand with elusive swiftness; Picasso-like faces stare momentarily upward, mutate, and disappear; wilted blossoms become suddenly animated. What happens on the screen is punctuated and accompanied by synthetic sound effects. Music by Bruce Mackay.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
320799
Language
English
Subject categories
Animation → Animated films - Canada
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art, Abstract
Crafts & Visual Arts → Surrealism
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)