“A Trageede In Masks”
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.
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Stan VanDerBeek Director
United States release January 1, 1964 · Produced in United States
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United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Belgium · December 28, 1963
Premiere · Knokke Experimental Film Festival
United States · January 1, 1964
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