Jan 01, 1989
8 min
Full-HD

Darkness, Light, Darkness (1989)

A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.

Category

Animation Comedy

Country

Czechoslovakia

Companies

Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky

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