Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
1964 · Short film · 9 min · dir. Carson Davidson
Synopsis
A surrealist satire on the Madison Avenue view of the world through advertising, with a jazz score by Bob Brookmeyer and Gerry Mulligan; Carson Davidson's 1964 short, an Academy Award nominee and Cannes jury prize winner.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Director
- Carson Davidson
- Running time
- 9 minutes
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- experimental
- jazz
- dada
- surrealism
Cast & crew
- Carson Davidson Director
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · It's like WOW, Man... · Strandlund · 2008-07-14
This is a great little Beatnick surreal film. Highly entertaining and downright strange...they just don't make them like this anymore.
★★★★★ · NEW YORK · nigeldavahah · 2010-11-23
They have great music and the film is fine - I like THIS !
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