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Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight (2005)

Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight poster
Genre
independent film
Country
United States
Runtime
6 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short animated film shows a mechanical puppet theater performing strange and dark scenes. It uses many different animation styles including traditional, cut-out, computer, and puppetry.

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What happens

Fish Heads Fugue and Other Tales for Twilight is a 2005 mixed-media animated short film directed by Lauren Indovina and Lindsey Mayer-Beug while they were attending Rhode Island School of Design. The story depicts a mechanical puppet theater, in which a series of dark and esoteric scenes are displayed. Traditional animation, cut-out animation, computer animation, and puppetry are all used. Critical reception has been favorable, and the film has received accolades from several noted commentators who have singled it out for its juxtaposition of music and evocative visual design. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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