Hangman (1964)

★★★★★ · Birdcage, Globes, mason square, man in wide brim hat portraying death · Wise_Wolf72 · 2025-01-07

There is a lot going on here. The poem being read I can follow their meaning. The animation and use of symbols here is brilliant. This should be seen by more ppl!

★★★★ · Response to Hangman (1964) · STOIC1987 · 2009-03-09

This is quite an unusual piece of work that I find very interesting. This short work of cut-scene animation; accompanied by music that fits the theme of the story is very artistic and unique. The Hangman is undoubtedly a great piece of poetry. A poem drafted into a short film that expresses the disturbing and disgusting side of man's nature - distorting Justice and certainly portrays how other human beings "feed other humans" through a "death machine". And often times, minorities of a particular community find themselves the scapegoats of the society's wrath and its urge to fulfill its…

★★★★ · The Hangman and "The State" · Hortence · 2010-07-23

Taxes? Is this the message that a reviewer would like us to believe that Ogden's poem and this animation addresses? How sad. This is exactly the kind of reasoning that this film warns us against. Ogden makes it clear with the first line,"Into our town the Hangman came...", that the Hangman is not a citizen of this town. The film goes on to depict the shadow of the Hangman's gallows falling on the courthouse to convey a metaphorical message that lawful government is being eclipsed by fear and force. The idea that Ogden is suggesting that the state is oppressing it's citizens just isn't valid.…

★★★★ · Wonderful, creepy 60's animation- Haunting! · kerriganm · 2008-06-21

Great 60's beatnik-style animation, narration and score. Indictment of capital punishment, as I read it, but perhaps more widely of discrimination and violence.