Street of Crocodiles (1986)

Directed by

Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

20 min

Rated

15+

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 81 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a stop-motion animation short inspired by a Bruno Schulz story. It follows a man in a dark, dusty city where strange mechanical objects come to life. The film creates an eerie and sad atmosphere without a direct plot.

unsettlingdreamlikebleakslow-burnvisually lushclaustrophobicmelancholiccerebral

What happens

Street of Crocodiles is a 21-minute-long British stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the Brothers Quay and released in 1986. "The Street of Crocodiles" was originally a short story written by Bruno Schulz, from a story collection published under that title in English translation. Rather than literally representing the childhood memoirs of Schulz, the animators used the story's mood and psychological undertones as inspiration for their own creation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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