Fantasmagorie
Experience the world’s first hand-drawn film animation
Directed by Émile Cohl
Produced by Société des Etablissements Gaumont (FR)
A delightfully absurd, stream-of-consciousness animation pioneer that prioritizes visual whimsy and morphing transformations over narrative coherence.
An animated film by French auteur Émile Cohl, one of the earliest examples of hand-drawn film animation. Drawing inspiration from J. Stuart Blackton and the Incoherents of club Hydropathes, the film, with all its wild transformations, sees our protagonist materialize a movie theatre, meet an elephant and escape from jail; A morphing, stream-of-consciousness delight.
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