Closed Mondays (1974)

Directed by

Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner

Genre

fantasy film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A claymation short film about a man who visits a museum at night and sees the exhibits come to life. The art interacts with him in weird and unexpected ways.

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What happens

Closed Mondays is an eight-minute clay animation film, created by Bob Gardiner and filmed by Will Vinton in 1974. It was produced by Lighthouse Productions, released by Pyramid Films in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1975, beating Disney's Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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