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Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You
Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You
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STILLE NACHT IV: CAN’T GO WRONG WITHOUT YOU

Can't Go Wrong Without You

Directed by Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
United Kingdom, 1993
Animation, Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

The Quays’ familiar puppet animation is here enhanced by the use of animated iron filings, which suggest the rapid formation of frost over every surface, the swaying of the individual particles suggesting a hefty buffeting by a keen, piercing wind.

Synopsis

The Quays’ familiar puppet animation is here enhanced by the use of animated iron filings, which suggest the rapid formation of frost over every surface, the swaying of the individual particles suggesting a hefty buffeting by a keen, piercing wind.

Our take

In this, the fourth and final in the Quay Brothers’s Stille Nacht series, we return to the creepy imagery of rabbits and dolls that bolstered the second entry, alongside the music of His Name Is Alive. Expressionistic disorientation and jagged edges abound in this Lewis Carroll-esque animated short.