Title/Year: Street of Crocodiles, 1987
Director/Birth Country/Year Born/: Brothers Quay, US, 1947
Budget: N/A
Gross: N/A
Synopsis: Stop motion reflecting human society
Narrative and Visual Keywords: Third person, dirty, bare, raw, ugly, curious
Characterization/ Dialogue: We follow a doll that follows a string. NO dialogue
Camera/lighting/editing technique: Static shots with few movements, slow editing, close up movement.
Political/ Social Commentary: Trying to show the uselessness of progression.
Historical Relevance/ Recognition: Besides the map of Poland attached to him, I found none
Notable Collaboration: This was their biggest budget film,
Random fact, Etc. : Terry Gilliam selected this as one of the top ten short films of all time.
The visual aspects made me feel glum. The raw and dirty parts of the world that I know are brought to me close up and personal. It feels make right off the bat with inanimate objects acting life-like.
The sound has lots of random clinking and clanking. Also the string based music helps correlate with the physical string that the character is following. Again, the mood was glum.
As always, it felt like everything was happening for no reason. Besides the doll, I did not feel the subject matter until the end, where it explained everything. Seeing someone try and shape the world in their image does have a ambiguous ambiance.
George Ilutsik
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