Backbone Tale
Animation for Adults
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9m 10s
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 9 mins | 2004
Clapin’s first short is a game of Tetris as much as it is a love story. It centers on a man whose spine bends at a striking right angle: his eyes can gaze only downwards, his hat perched on the back of his head. The appearance of a woman whose back bends in the opposite direction would seem to signal an end to his loneliness.
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