M. E.

M. E.

"Monstrum Exosse" — monsters without a skeleton, a linguistic metaphor of "signifier" without "signified" (or vice versa)

1986 · 23 min · ★ 6.2 · Science Fiction, Family

The waste of the toy factory "Ogonyok", clumps of multicolored thermally deformed plastic, turn into a new biological species, then into a new direction of modern art, then into an isolated language of a native tribe discovered by linguists in the jungle, where words must be carried silently with you and shown if necessary, then into heroes of crazy phantasmagoric news.

Directed by Igor Aleynikov · Written by Gleb Aleynikov

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