A (1965 film) explained

A
Director:Jan Lenica
Producer:Boris von Borresholm
Music:Georges Delerue
Bernard Parmegiani
Cinematography:Georges Maillet
Renate Ruhr
Editing:Renate Ruhr
Studio:Film Boris von Borrisholm
Distributor:Alpha Film Group
Atlas Film
Runtime:10 minutes
Country:West Germany
Language:French

A[1] is a 1965 short film animated by Jan Lenica.

Summary

It involves a writer tormented by a giant letter "A". He frees himself from the "A" only to encounter a "B".[2] [3]

Background

It began production in late 1964 and premiered at the Oberhausen Film Festival in February 1965. The film was considered lost until it was found as a part of a 1973 episode of Screening Room [4] [5] and uploaded to YouTube in 2016.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jan Lenica Filmography. https://web.archive.org/web/20130825064459/http://www.culture.pl/web/english/resources-visual-arts-full-page/-/eo_event_asset_publisher/eAN5/content/jan-lenica . 2013-08-25.
  2. Web site: Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award – 1965 -. cartoonresearch.com.
  3. https://mubi.com/films/a-1965 MUBI
  4. https://store.der.org/screening-room-jan-lenica-p380.aspx Screening Room: Jan Lenica (1973)|Documentary Educational Resources
  5. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2854450/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Said episode of Screening Room on IMDb