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Animation Legends Quay Brothers Head to ‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ Where ‘Mystery Is a Potent Force’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Quay Brothers premiere ‘Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass’ in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori section.
“When we visited poster designer Andrzej Klimowski in Warsaw, he introduced us not only to Schulz, but also his contemporaries Gombrowicz and Witkacy, along with the music of Krzysztof Komeda and Ewa Demarczyk,” they recall, mentioning other important Polish artists. Tadeusz Janiszewski, Wioletta Kopańska, Andrzej Kłak, Allison Bell and Zenaida Yanowsky voice “Sanatorium,” produced by Lucie Conrad and Izabella Kiszka-Hoflik for Koninck Studios SpK Galicia and IKH Pictures Production. “We used, very sparingly, texts from the ‘Sanatorium’ story, ‘The Comet’ and ‘The Republic of Dreams.’ The latter forms a coda to the entire film and announces, in a voiceover, an impossibly beautiful utopian vision, nameless and cosmic, and which is a colossal reproach to these violent times of ours.”
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