Macabre "Fallen Art"

Since January is such a miserable month anyway...I find it as good of an excuse as any to spend more time web surfing. And while I was perusing YouTube, I remembered a creepy little animation that I had saved in my favorites file. So I thought I'd share it here, since most of us tend to appreciate macabre, creepy and otherwise disturbing things.

This is a brilliantly macabre little short film of a somewhat disturbing nature . I can't even remember what I was searching for when I ran across it, but I remember thinking that the animation was so top notch and the subject matter was indeed disturbingly macabre. Yet I couldn't help but be impressed by the work itself.

The name of the short film is "Fallen Art" by Tomek Baginski of Poland. The synopsis says...."In an old forgotten military base far from civilization, a group of deranged military officers nurture their insanity." But a better description was written by commenter, QPhilms...."The generals, bored, fat and needing purpose, give orders to their subordinates, sending men to their doom, replete with medals, to create a macabre choreography. The Dance of Death... war."

The short film won several awards, including a BAFTA. You can read more about it on the Fallen Art website. To get it to play, you may have to hit the HQ button ('watch in High Quality).