Sniffer: One Man Takes It All Off for Freedom!
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“Sniffer” is an accaimed short experimental/art film by the Norwegian director Bobbie Peers. “Sniffer” won the Palme d’Or in the short films category at the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival, and Peers was awarded the Norman McLaren Prize for film direction at the festival. The film reveals the blackest of dark humor, absolute self-deprecation and a savage willingness to torch social convention. It imagines what conformity, consumerism and desire would be like in a futuristic world with no gravity, minimal dialogue and a cast of very sweaty, overweight men.
The story unfolds in a society devoid of sunlight and open sky, where its members go about their routines without the slightest hope of receiving any personal gratification. The main character of the film trudges day-after-day to a job where he works as a deodorant tester, sniffing the sweaty armpits of exercising test subjects. One day, however, the man is confronted by an event that changes his life forever. He quits his job, loosens his bindings and literally takes off!
This piece includes a number of color illustrations from the film, as well as the very intriguing, spaced out and absurdly humorous short film, “Sniffer.”
Please visit my website to view these illustrations, and to watch this award-winning and very strange short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/sniffer-one-man-takes-it-all-off-for...
The story unfolds in a society devoid of sunlight and open sky, where its members go about their routines without the slightest hope of receiving any personal gratification. The main character of the film trudges day-after-day to a job where he works as a deodorant tester, sniffing the sweaty armpits of exercising test subjects. One day, however, the man is confronted by an event that changes his life forever. He quits his job, loosens his bindings and literally takes off!
This piece includes a number of color illustrations from the film, as well as the very intriguing, spaced out and absurdly humorous short film, “Sniffer.”
Please visit my website to view these illustrations, and to watch this award-winning and very strange short film:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/sniffer-one-man-takes-it-all-off-for...
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