The Games of Angels (1967)

Overview : Animated short. Abstract forms in a setting evocative of a concentration camp created by the universe. Based on a series of paintings by the Polish artists and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk, Les Jeux des Anges takes the viewer into a nightmarish and sinister labyrinth world. With images reminiscent of Bosch and Ernst and an abstract soundtrack the film evoke unspeakable horrors lurking at the heart Borowczyk's masterpiece. Borowczyk described the film himself as "A report on the city of angels."

Release Date : January 15, 1967

Runtime : 13m

Genre : Animation  

Companies : Les Cinéastes Associés

Countries : France

Keywords : labyrinth, journey, unsettling, enigmatic