Angel (1966)

Directed by

Derek May

Genre

adventure, animation

Country

Canada

Runtime

7 min

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man, a girl and a dog play in the snow and try to fly. The film has a pure white background and music by Leonard Cohen.

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What happens

Angel is a 1966 experimental animated short directed by Derek May and produced by Guy Glover for the National Film Board of Canada. In it, a young man, a girl and a dog play in the snow and attempt to fly. The film was shot against a snowscape and then stripped of grayscale to create a pure white background. It features music by Leonard Cohen, performed by The Stormy Clovers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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