form y separately published work icon Glide if You Can single work   film/TV   fantasy  
Issue Details: First known date: 1975... 1975 Glide if You Can
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The final film from surrealist Dusan Marek, Glide if You Can was made in collaboration with the students from the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart. According to Alex Gerbaz,

It has a nightmarish, funereal quality, full of ghostly figures and unexplained deaths. Characters appears and disappear out of the blue, followed and watched dispassionately by others. Bodies are hurtled over rocky cliffs, or seen floating in a stream. A man tumbles down sand dunes; a frightened woman flees an unseen force, running first in one direction then the opposite way; four pallbearers cooperate wordlessly among the ruins of a castle. The visual eeriness is compounded by a dramatic organ score that makes occasional abrupt shifts in tone -- thunderous and abrasive one moment, sombre and peaceful the next. (p.3)

Source:

Gerbaz, Alex. 'Innovations in Australian Cinema: An Historical Outline of Australian Experimental Film', Journal of the National Film and Sound Archives 3.1 (2008): 1-12.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,: Dusan Marek , 1975 .
      Extent: Short film (unknown length)p.
      Description: Animated
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