Les Temps Morts (1964)

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France

Animated Short Film

Original Title: Les temps morts

Director: René Laloux

Writers: René Laloux, Roland Topor, Jacques Sternberg

Composer: Alain Goraguer

Narrator: Roland Dubillard

Laloux’s blackly comic short film – mixing animated footage with moving and still archive materials, showing images of war, murder, and execution – is presented, from an alien perspective, as an anthropological study of the peculiar behaviour of the residents of planet Earth. Iain.Stott