Inspirations

Jirí Barta
The Club of the Laid Off (25 min. - 1989)
Set in an empty flat where damaged, retired mannequins are stored, Barta brings those mannequins to life, showing them trying to carry out their prescribed function even though they have been remove from their regular workplace context and are broken and missing pieces of themselves. When newer, flashier mannequins are dumped into the apartment, a war erupts as old meets new. The obvious social commentary is actually pretty much left up to the viewer. The meaning of this piece could be an editorial on the plight of the modern worker in a society that is becoming less and less human, or merely a hallucinatory look into the secret life of plastic replicas of people.






Norman McLaren
Neighbours (1952)
The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower.

A Chairy Tale
A fairy tale in the modern manner, told without words. In the film, a chair (animated by Evelyn Lambart) that declines to be sat upon and a young man perform a sort of pas de deux.