Venice Film Festival 2024, BFI London Film Festival 2024
A man travels by train to a sanatorium in Eastern Europe after being informed that his father has died there. When he arrives, however, he finds the sanatorium in a state of decline. His father turns out to be alive, but only now and then. Jozef will come to realise that the sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness, and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.
The Quay Brothers studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, then later in London at the Royal College of Art. They are renowned for their artisanal animation films with macabre overtones, the most popular among them being ‘Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life’.
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