Speechless. That's what Symphony No. 42 will undoubtedly leave you, unless you can comprehend the connection between the unlikely situations that are woven together in this animated film.
The night sky is clear and full of twinkling stars. A fox sketches a celestial drawing, except instead of the sun at the center, it is the Eye of Providence, or all-seeing eye of God, blinking back at the fox. He puts the drawing up on a nearby tree and it comes to life with the planets rotating around the eye. The fox then pulls out a gun and shoots itself. And so begins Symphony No. 42.
Imagine an orchestra tuning up. They and the audience are waiting for the conductor to arrive. Meanwhile, each instrument needs adjustment, each one currently out of synch with the other. There's no harmony in this moment, just a collection of noises. This is what Symphony No. 42 feels like. We are watching each instrument before it has found its place in the orchestra.
This ten-minute short film contains several vignettes, some less than a minute long, depicting animals and people doing things that are mind-bending to say the least. Like a woman pouring milk into a cow, only to have it trickle out of its udders. Or a giant, three-headed dog blowing bubbles. …show more content…
A penguin on a stage, singing opera. Clouds raining blood in one scene, transitioning into red flakes of food dropping into a fish tank in the next, the fish changing color as they swim. A man standing in his kitchen holding a mug that says, "Happy hippo," as one emerges from his white-tiled floor, as if rising from underwater. Another man in the following scene sees the same hippo haunting him as a light is switched off and on. His scream is heard in the next shot emanating from a tent in the woods. He is silenced when someone pulls a cord hanging from a nearby tree, switching off the light in his tent and turning on small lights on the tree branches, which then float away like
The night sky is clear and full of twinkling stars. A fox sketches a celestial drawing, except instead of the sun at the center, it is the Eye of Providence, or all-seeing eye of God, blinking back at the fox. He puts the drawing up on a nearby tree and it comes to life with the planets rotating around the eye. The fox then pulls out a gun and shoots itself. And so begins Symphony No. 42.
Imagine an orchestra tuning up. They and the audience are waiting for the conductor to arrive. Meanwhile, each instrument needs adjustment, each one currently out of synch with the other. There's no harmony in this moment, just a collection of noises. This is what Symphony No. 42 feels like. We are watching each instrument before it has found its place in the orchestra.
This ten-minute short film contains several vignettes, some less than a minute long, depicting animals and people doing things that are mind-bending to say the least. Like a woman pouring milk into a cow, only to have it trickle out of its udders. Or a giant, three-headed dog blowing bubbles. …show more content…
A penguin on a stage, singing opera. Clouds raining blood in one scene, transitioning into red flakes of food dropping into a fish tank in the next, the fish changing color as they swim. A man standing in his kitchen holding a mug that says, "Happy hippo," as one emerges from his white-tiled floor, as if rising from underwater. Another man in the following scene sees the same hippo haunting him as a light is switched off and on. His scream is heard in the next shot emanating from a tent in the woods. He is silenced when someone pulls a cord hanging from a nearby tree, switching off the light in his tent and turning on small lights on the tree branches, which then float away like