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2012 · 2m · Italy
Directed by Donato Sansone
Genres: animation, experimental, surrealism
Tones: dark, surreal, theatrical
In a hand-drawn stream of metamorphoses, a bullet through a man's head gives birth to an androgynous figure whose body splits and multiplies into birds and fish under a rabbit's gaze.
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The scouts
A bullet births an androgynous creature that splinters into fauna under a rabbit's witness—Sansone commits to the absurd with zero apology, and that refusal to explain the logic is exactly why it works. Most scouts would call it pretty chaos; it's actually rigorous metamorphosis.
Sansone positions himself in a lineage of hand-drawn surrealists—Švankmajer, early Plympton—but the economy of his 2-minute form shows restraint that elevates the work beyond mere spectacle; each multiplication earns its place in the visual argument.
The decision to anchor all that fluid, multiplying violence through the rabbit's fixed gaze—turning witness into grammar—is what transforms a surreal sequence into something with actual emotional weight and compositional purpose.
Reviews
Une pépite audacieuse et ténébreuse. Au-delà d'un exercice de style, qu'il faut reconnaître comme très réussi, le film se prête à une lecture complexe : les identités plurielles, l'être fractionné, le cycle de la création, la mort et la renaissance…