ACERA, or the Witches’ Dance (1972)
- Original title
- Acéra ou Le bal des sorcières
- Directed by
- Geneviève Hamon, Jean Painlevé
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 12 min
- Rating
- 5.9 of 10 from 17 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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This short documentary observes acera, small mollusks in Brittany's mud flats. It shows them resting and then dancing in water with their spreading hoods. They mate and lay eggs, and the cycle continues.
slownessmeditativewhimsicalobservationalrhythmicearthydreamlikehypnotic
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