Absolutely loved the technique, colours and surrealist scenes on this! Will definitely save it on a playlist

>>2

Oh, good to hear! Actually I didn't mind much that the site didn't have many content markings as it is relatively now, so I just marked this in the comments just in case. I think marking it as aimed as adult is good enough to avoid showing it to younger audiences by mistake.



Right now, would it be fine if I mark some "heavy scenes" (graphic stuff) in the comments just in case as CW/TWs (only if it's really present)? or would it be ok to leave it as that? Just wondering !

>>3

I agree in a lot of this! I was looking for more info of the director but couldn't find more stuff more than his profile on animator.rus, which is a shame because I wanted to see more stuff exactly like this oof. Cut out is one of my favourite animation techniques recently, and every film is different in aesthetic but this one in particular caught my eye. I was wondering if this has a name?

>>2

Azerbaijan's animated films seem to have been a lot lesser-known than Armenia's in the USSR, as a whole, and there are only a few of them on this site. I'll have to see if I can find anything else that's interesting from there.



As for my own thoughts, I too thought this had a rather characteristic and interesting art style. But as animation, things don't MOVE that well (though not terribly, either), and I found it was sometimes so distracting that it was hard to tell what was going on.



Though I never got entirely lost - the story's pretty straightforward, after all. And things become clearer on a second viewing.



Very nice music (usually a strong point of films from the southern USSR regions).



Sound effects/voices were distractingly "wacky". I'm not sure it was really necessary to go THAT far. It made it harder for me to relate to the characters.



Overall, a bit mixed. Although, very good and daring for a first attempt.



It seems, unless I'm mistaken, that the director of this never returned to animation afterwards...

>>1

Indeed. Although I find what happens more disturbing than the way it is visually portrayed, which is why I guess I didn't mark this (I normally really dislike "gore").



By the way, at some point, this site will have a better way of displaying what age category a film is aimed at than a simple "NSFW" genre. So for a film like this, I guess it should clearly be marked as aimed at adults and contraindicated for children (with a "neutral" for teens). There will inevitably be some debatable value judgements involved in that, but on the whole, probably preferable to having no info about that at all.