Film
Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
2021 · 4m · Animation
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Overview
An animated film based on the painting about Max Ernst of the same title, he said that a “fevervision” he had experienced when he was sick with measles as a child inspired him to compose the haunting scene that unfolds in Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale. Merging collage and painting, he affixed a wooden gate, parts of a toy house, and a knob to a dreamlike painted landscape. A blue sky dominates the composition, and in it a small nightingale hovers above two young girls. The painting features what would come to be identified as the defining preoccupations of Surrealism, a movement in which Ernst was a central figure: dreams and the unconscious; sexuality (as represented, for example, by the girl’s phallic knife); and incongruous juxtapositions.
Crew
- Joanna WoodwardDirector
Details
- Release date
- October 31, 2021
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 4m
- Genres
- Animation
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