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I remember this short film as a child. An eccentric family friend often sent me bizarre films, often preceded by shorts. This particular short appeared before Jan Svankmajer's "Alice", but I don't think that means the short is necessarily Czech as well.
The short itself is comprised of a dozen or so vignettes, each about 10 seconds long. The vignettes are animations, slides, etc. of countdowns in the style of film leader (9 to 2). Once one vignette ends the next starts immediately without any connection.
I remember only a few vignettes. One I believe was a series of photographs of a couple dance in a park, with each number a different picture was shown with the couple closer to the camera.
Another was an illustrated animation of a farmer stamping pigs at a slaughterhouse. Each stamp was a regressive number in the countdown until the pigs overpower the farmer and stamp him with "2".
The last one I can remember is an animation pf someone driving in the rain, from the viewpoint of the driver in the car. The swishing windshield wipers acted as the counting noise while the drop patterns on the windshield formed the numbers. At the end the car reaches a tunnel.
I'd greatly appreciate any information, and by the way if anyone hasn't seen Svankmajer's "Alice" I highly recommend it.
The short itself is comprised of a dozen or so vignettes, each about 10 seconds long. The vignettes are animations, slides, etc. of countdowns in the style of film leader (9 to 2). Once one vignette ends the next starts immediately without any connection.
I remember only a few vignettes. One I believe was a series of photographs of a couple dance in a park, with each number a different picture was shown with the couple closer to the camera.
Another was an illustrated animation of a farmer stamping pigs at a slaughterhouse. Each stamp was a regressive number in the countdown until the pigs overpower the farmer and stamp him with "2".
The last one I can remember is an animation pf someone driving in the rain, from the viewpoint of the driver in the car. The swishing windshield wipers acted as the counting noise while the drop patterns on the windshield formed the numbers. At the end the car reaches a tunnel.
I'd greatly appreciate any information, and by the way if anyone hasn't seen Svankmajer's "Alice" I highly recommend it.
