Animation Tuesdays: Fantastic Planet
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August 5, 12, 19 & 26 2025
Animation Tuesdays: Fantastic Planet
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.
Dir: René Laloux / 1973 / France, Czechoslovakia / 72 min
SCREENING: TUE 8/5 8PM; TUE 8/12 8PM; TUE 8/19 8PM; TUE 8/26 8PM
$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.
Animation Tuesdays: Fantastic Planet
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.
Dir: René Laloux / 1973 / France, Czechoslovakia / 72 min
SCREENING: TUE 8/5 8PM; TUE 8/12 8PM; TUE 8/19 8PM; TUE 8/26 8PM
$13 GA & $10 OFS. Tickets are available at the box office 30 minutes before showtimes.
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