Synopsis:
Abyssus Abyssum Invocat is a short film that utilizes stop-motion animation and live-action puppetry to create a darkly comic meditation on capital punishment and religion.
- Director:
- Wes Simpkins
- Year:
- 2012
- Country:
- United States
- Running time:
- 9 min.
- Technique:
- Stop Motion Animation, Puppet Animation
- Production type:
- Professional
- Producer:
- Wes Simpkins
- Script writer:
- Wes Simpkins
- Music composer:
- David Ohliger
- Sound designer:
- Michelangelo Sosnowitz
- Editor:
- Matt Glasson
- Genres:
- Drama, Horror, Abstract, Experimental
- Tags:
- Surreal, Festival Darlings, Death, Time, Identity, Poetic, Transformation, Shame
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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