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Midnight Dance

    • Director

      John McCloskey

    • Credits

      Producer: Pearse Moore.

  • Category

    Short
    Animation
    Music

The skeletal dead risen and walking is a theme in many great works of medieval art, and that tradition is used to great effect in this animated short. A fiddler plays music to raise skeletons from their graves and lead them on a dance across the countryside in search of the living, with a rich orchestral soundtrack enhancing the surreal quality of these images of the dancing dead. 

6 minutes, Ireland, 1996, Colour


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