Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as The Brothers Quay, have adapted a Stanislaw Lem (“Solaris”) story into a new animated short. Well, not entirely new, since the film technically premiered last year, but it will be making the rounds of the festival circuit in 2011, and a trailer has been unleashed upon the world.
Here’s a synopsis:
“Maska” (“Mask”) is the latest animated film of Quay brothers, directors and puppet animators, with the music composed by Krzysztof Penderecki. The screenplay is the adaptation of Stanisław Lem’s novel of the same title. The action of “Maska” is set in a technologically developed but, at the same time, feudal world. Beautiful Duenna was created in order to carry out certain mission. However, she will be forced to choose between accomplishing the task she was created for and love.
The trailer is beautiful, surreal, and spooky, and though I’m not entirely certain what’s going on, whatever the hell it is looks amazing and I want to watch it. Hopefully it’ll come around my neck of the woods so I can see it on the big screen, or at least get a wide DVD/Blu-ray release.
The trailer is embedded below, thanks to the good folks at Twitch.
