An egg and an apple sit atop two different piles of garbage in a wasteland. The egg hatches a bird-like creature while the apple moulds into a creature with a claw. In the middle is a building containing an old transistor radio, which brightens up when the bird manufactures a broadcasting tower for music. Seeing this, the claw starts construction on its own tower with the aim of drawing the radio to it.
If the plot summary sounds odd then you probably are not prepared for what this film becomes once it gets going, since these few sentences represent the more accessible parts of the film. There is a meaning here and I think it is broadly about the destructive nature of competition and something about the drive to reproduce and how things cycle – I think. It is really hard to say because this rather oppressive, dark and macabre film doesn't tend to help the viewer too much. Seeing one of the countries of origin of this film listed as Czech Republic really didn't surprise me because it did very much have the grungy, industrial feel of Eastern European animation in here. With the plot getting weirder and weirder as it goes on, it is hard to stay with it but the animation remains engaging.
It is rarely pretty to look at but technically the stop motion animation is fluid and visually arresting (not attractive) and it is hard not to be impressed by what the makers have done – even if at the same time it starts getting odder and odder to the point where it feels a bit overwhelming in its weirdness. I wish I had connected better with it, because technically and thematically there is a lot going on, but it is a hard sell.
If the plot summary sounds odd then you probably are not prepared for what this film becomes once it gets going, since these few sentences represent the more accessible parts of the film. There is a meaning here and I think it is broadly about the destructive nature of competition and something about the drive to reproduce and how things cycle – I think. It is really hard to say because this rather oppressive, dark and macabre film doesn't tend to help the viewer too much. Seeing one of the countries of origin of this film listed as Czech Republic really didn't surprise me because it did very much have the grungy, industrial feel of Eastern European animation in here. With the plot getting weirder and weirder as it goes on, it is hard to stay with it but the animation remains engaging.
It is rarely pretty to look at but technically the stop motion animation is fluid and visually arresting (not attractive) and it is hard not to be impressed by what the makers have done – even if at the same time it starts getting odder and odder to the point where it feels a bit overwhelming in its weirdness. I wish I had connected better with it, because technically and thematically there is a lot going on, but it is a hard sell.