Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway is one of the most talked-about Animation movies released in 1984, attracting audiences with its cinematic storytelling and memorable performances.
In this animation film without words, filmmaker Pierre Hébert and musicians Robert Lepage and René Lussier worked together, and separately, in their respective media. This cinema/music performance recreates, impressionistically, the dehumanizing environment of the urban subway. Drawings etch the outlines of people hurtling through space in underground tunnels. The sound track, elemental and atonal, gives compelling expression to their alienation.
