Getting too big for your digs

[msarty]

Here is a genius short animation by Jan Svankmajer which displays how a human body is reconstructed by himself in a small and enclosed room.

There is one part that reminds me of Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream. Tell me if you see it,

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Comments

[lillibet]

You mean right around 4:30 when the legss come in? Yeah, now that you mention it.

I forget where we saw this originally--might have been the Tate Modern. I usually don't have the patience for video art, but this one's awesome.

[qbaz]

Nice! I have mornings like this, occasionally, myself.

[gilana]

I'm amused that after my experience doing Foley for Tomes of Terror, I was most intrigued by the sounds they chose for this, and trying to figure out how they made them :)

[msarty]

Funny, I was thinking how much the sounds reminded me of hands in spaghetti or someone squeezing old fruit.