Gymnopédies (1965)
Audience Score
Animation The theme is Weightlessness Objects and characters are cut loose from habitual meanings also from tensions and gravitational limitations A lyric Eric Satie track accompanies the film Such a portrait seems necessary from time to time to remind us that equilibrium and harmony are possible and that we will not dissolve into a jelly if we allow ourselves to relax into them A horseman rides through the landscape through the town but never arrives anywhere in particular An acrobat swings on a rope above a canal in Venice and is content just to swing there Nothing threatens to disturb them This film is a total contrast to the Kafkalike oddities of Eastern European animation Canyon Cinema
DirectorLawrence Jordan
