Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway

Overview

In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The sound track, elemental and atonal, gives compelling expression to their alienation.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1984

Original language

French

Countries

Canada

Production

ONF,NFB

Director

Pierre Hébert

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt0226464