Angst for the Memories: The Films of Stefan Schabenbeck
Angst for the Memories: The Films of Stefan Schabenbeck
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Polish animator Stefan Schabenbeck made a series of films in the late 1960s and early '70s that are noted for their strong stands against the dehumanizing aspects of modern society. While the films largely reflect what the artist saw, and disliked, in the communist bureaucracy of the years they were made, these distinctive and imaginative works are, if anything, even more relevant in today''s technologically driven world. A man attempts to survive the oppression of numbers and geometric shapes in Everything Is a Number (1966); a society of ant-like creatures falls victim to the ball they created in Exclamation Mark (1967); The Drought (1969) is a brilliantly realized visualization of frustration; Stairs (1968) is a poetic, sol emn work depicting life as an endless set of stairs; in Wind (1969), a c rowd pursues a man to obtain the mysterious envelope he carries; and finally, i n Invasion (1970), a series of alien space ships lands on the planet that Stefan Schabenbeck---Poland---1966-1970---41 mins.

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