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Alcestis

Experimental • 22m

Directed by Lewis Klahr • Animation • 2021 • 22 minutes

An interpretive adaptation of the Greek myth and the Euripides play that uses a melange of comic book characters as its cast. Klahr's most explicitly narrative collage film. From the series The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness.

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alcestis, animated, animation, anishort, experimental, expository, lewis klahr, ovid, shod, short

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