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Catalogue Number: NFB522202
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Robert Forget
Directors: Pierre Hébert
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Canadian Social Studies, Civics, Media and Communications, Social Studies, Tech/Voc
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1984
Running Time: 14:23
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Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB522202
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Robert Forget
Directors: Pierre Hébert
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), Office national du film du Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Animation, Canadian Social Studies, Civics, Media and Communications, Social Studies, Tech/Voc
Grade Level: Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1984
Running Time: 14:23
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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.