The brothers Quay, like Jan Svankmajer, made dark, beautiful stop-motion/ puppet animations. The short film "Street of Cocodriles" is possible the best work of the Brothers Quay: The atmosphere is thrilling, beautiful, and all the characters that appear on it have a unique, fascinating appearance.
Inspired in the story written by Bruno Schulz, this short film manages to be disturbing and unsettling, without using blood or any kind of violence. Even without words, you could feel the fear of the main character while he is in the Street of Cocodriles, where he finds several mysterious beings. Heavily metaphorical, like the other shorts of the Brothers Quay, the music made by Leszek Jankowski helps a lot in order to portrait a bleak and mysterious realm.
This is one of the best animated shorts I've ever watched. I was more thrilling than any horror movie that I watched recently.
Inspired in the story written by Bruno Schulz, this short film manages to be disturbing and unsettling, without using blood or any kind of violence. Even without words, you could feel the fear of the main character while he is in the Street of Cocodriles, where he finds several mysterious beings. Heavily metaphorical, like the other shorts of the Brothers Quay, the music made by Leszek Jankowski helps a lot in order to portrait a bleak and mysterious realm.
This is one of the best animated shorts I've ever watched. I was more thrilling than any horror movie that I watched recently.