The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (1973)
- Original title
- The Cave
- Directed by
- Sam Weiss
- Genre
- animation
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This short animated film is Orson Welles narrating Plato's allegory of the cave. It uses haunting human figures to show prisoners who mistake shadows for reality.
meditativecontemplativesoberingstylizedatmosphericsurrealnarrator-driven
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Of Stars and Men (1964)
Bulud niyə ağlayır? (1973)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.
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