Title: The hunger /
Authors: Foldès, Peter, 1924-1977,; Amos Vogel Annenberg School of Communications Collection (Harvard Film Archive)
Publisher: The National Film Board of Canada,
Year: 1974
Subjects: Automobiles in motion pictures.; Surrealism.; Middle class in motion pictures.
Abstract: In this animated film, a man answering phones in an office calls his secretary, and then the film's animated characters begin to morph and transfrom setting the stage for the surreal scenes that follow. At 5pm the man turns into an automobile and drives to a Deli. Once in the restaurant, he metamorphosizes into a grotesque eating monster with many hands and mouths. In the next scene he is in his bed experiencing indigestion, and in the nightmare that follows he is falling to his death. In the final scene starving people consume his shattered corpse in an effort to assuage their hunger.