Days Off

Sep 6, 2018

0h 11m

★ 0.0

Overview

Days Off is a short film, an homage to the puppet and city. By combining puppet animation and live action it builds a certain strange kind of reality, a reality that is based in the real world. It is an audiovisual testimony using the language of surrealism, satire, parody, irony and gallows humor, a dark mirror reflecting today’s world.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Production Companies

FAMU

MAUR film

Filmtalent Zlín Foundation

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