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The Bead Game

The Bead Game

1977
Animation
Short Film
6m
To a percussive soundtrack, a succession of more complex animals forms and is consumed by their successors (all formed from beads). Finally, We reach man, who develops ever more sophisticated forms of war. (imdb)

The Bead Game

1977
Animation
Short Film
6m
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Avg Percentile 60.39% from 103 total ratings

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Rated 21 Nov 2020
72
82nd
This really has something: what starts in a way that seems simply abstract turns out to be, so it seems, the advent of biomolecules leading into a history of endosomatisation as the struggle to survive, followed by exosomatisation portrayed largely but not exclusively as the history of war, leading to a terrifying but also somehow cosmic conclusion – and all done with beads.
Rated 23 Dec 2013
68
65th
Bees?!
Rated 22 Nov 2020
70
38th
Cute, delicately done (must be hard work in 1977 without computers), nice rhythm, and kind of a history of (endosomatic and exosomatic) evolution in five minutes.
Rated 21 Nov 2020
85
81st
NFB SHORT A DAY #18: Something of a companion piece to McLaren's NEIGHBOURS, dazzling stop-motion beadwork incorporating mythological and evolutionary imagery whose closing question seems to be whether "peaceful" nuclear energy is the final myth we'll tell.
Rated 16 Aug 2015
9
90th
(2nd viewing) When experimental short films are bad, they're insufferable. The Bead Game, however, backs up its creative visuals with a compelling statement on the destructive nature of man and the animalistic nature that rages deep within. I recommend watching it twice, to catch all the subtle details.
Rated 16 Jun 2012
78
86th
nice one! :o
Rated 16 Jun 2012
88
92nd
Holy shit, this is just amazing and beautiful
Rated 13 Sep 2009
84
77th
Nice beat keeps it moving as the fun and games of the beads turns into ever more horrific scenes of violence.
Rated 27 Feb 2009
70
61st
Interesting.
Rated 12 Dec 2008
92
98th
Great
Rated 05 May 2007
90
89th
fortunately before the era of porn parodies

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