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Heavy Heads

BALAGAN – Screening at Cambridge’s Brattle Theatre later this month as part of a program of highlights from the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Helena Frank’s animated short Heavy Heads plays out in a nearly monochrome world of TV dinners, buzzing flies, and hangdog humans. There’s a startling, unsavory twist to it all that ultimately speaks to the depths of its central character’s alienation and frustration – the paucity of pleasure in an oppressively gray world.

by Victoria Large   on 18 Feb 2012 5:33 PM   Source: Screener Download