Extract from Satre
Short stop motion animation film based on a chapter from Jean Paul Satre's book 'Age of Reason'. Daniel is a very unhappy man. He feels contempt towards everyone including himself. One day he decides, in an act of self hatred, to drown his cats.
Extract from Satre
Log Line:
Daniel is a very unhappy man. He feels contempt towards everyone including himself. One day he decides, in an act of self hatred, to drown his cats.
Characters
Daniel - 30’s talls handsome and neatly dressed, living in a wealthy apartment in 1920’s Paris, with his cats. He is a twisted ball of arrogance and self hatred, scowling out at the world. His only love is for his cats.
Synopsis
Daniel begins his day tending to himself in his bathroom shaving, delicately. He treats the day with importance and doesn’t want to be interrupted.
Strolling through London’s streets, his three cats tenderly locked in a wicker basket, a watery fate awaiting them, he laments at everything around him: the morning sun, strangers, himself. Slowly making his way across the city towards the River Thames but, the longer he travels the more restless the cats get.
When he finally reaches his destination, he’s tired and weary. Sitting on the bank resting and contemplating, alone, but for his cats and a fisherman downstream. When the time comes, eyes deep in the green blue water. He decides against it and heads home.