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Balablok
19727 min 27 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Bretislav Pojar
Production: René Jodoin
Here is an animated replay of the human comedy as amusing in its perception as in the way it caricatures humanity's propensity to resort to violence rather than to reason. The whole arena of conflict is reduced to its simplest dimensions--cubes and balls representing antagonists. Why they fight and what happens after the battle is a parody of human nature. Film without words.
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Subject categories
- War, Conflict and Peace > Allegories of War and Peace
- Social Issues > Animation and Allegory on Social IssuesViolence
- History > World History
- Health/Personal Development > Bullying & Discrimination
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
- Social Studies > Social History
Credits
- director
- Bretislav Pojar
- direction - assistance
- Francine Desbiens
- Clorinda Warny
- backgrounds
- Yvon Mallette
- camera
- Pierre Provost
- music
- Maurice Blackburn
- orchestration
- Pierre F. Brault
- recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- producer
- René Jodoin
Awards
- Grand Prix du Festival - Category: Short FilmInternational Film Festival
- Best Animated FilmInternational Short Film Festival
- Critic's AwardInternational Film Festival