Bruno Bozzetto - Dancing (above)
Ingmar Bergman - a Chess Game (below)
MPFC - An unexpected dinner guest (")*********** This post exists because I was looking at
The Dvorak dance from 'Allegro...' and this vid
Presented itself to my eyes for the first time.The director is the same for both pieces of animation,
Bruno Bozzetto,
And you can see similar humor and broodings at work.
Both have a light and a dark side to them
So familiar to that of human nature...
And its partitioned ways of perceiving and labeling. This animation belongs to that longstanding
Tradition of human interaction with and
Personification of Death as a scythed one,
Becloaked and free of flesh on its humanoid skeleton.Dour and often robotic it is... though it is worth re-seeing
Bergman's iconic "Det sjunde inseglet," or as
Released in the USA, "The Seventh Seal."There are also the more humorous depictions, as in
"The Meaning of Life," by Monty Python's Flying Circus,
"Monkey Hell," by The Mighty Boosh and the more
Conflicted, "Dead Like Me" and Woody Allen's,
"Love and Death."What have we gained through our arts at recreating
Death as a character or a god of mythology?
Once it is external and anthropomorphized, we can
Relate, ask those important questions we all carry,
And even play a game of chess for fate's sake.Enjoy the funky video and hat, won't you?
Life and Death both seem to ~ why not you?
Cheers for your bright shiny day.And for your further enjoyment here's
Swedish chess and dinner too. (Neither cheese nor cheddar)