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
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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