30 Jan 2004
A Belated Premiere
A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.
Anthropo-Cynical Farce
Dog racing is used as a metaphor for the futility of human existence.
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