The Chair

The Chair

1978 · 9 min · ★ 7.0 · Animation

It’s that time of year when unwanted items of furniture from a Budapest tenement block are chucked out. Among the discarded antique furniture, a Thonet chair sets off on a road trip to leave the dusty urban cityscape behind and, via the concrete jungle of newbuild flats and the broken-down rust belt, finally return to nature.

Directed by Ferenc Cakó

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