Cave Syndrome

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Video: 12,000km | Vimeo | Erik Nylander | 28m 03s

A group of Swedish snowboarders want to try out the slopes in Japan, but have decided that they are no longer travelling by air because of the climate crisis. Instead, they take a series of boats and trains across eastern Europe and Russia to get there, documenting their journey through thousands of miles of wintry landscape.

Video: Hold It | YouTube | UCLA Film & Television Archive | 7m 52s

Cats serenade their neighbourhood at night — animated film from Fleischer Studios, Disney’s chief competitor in the 1930s. Note the surrealist touches — the bass disintegrates into the air, the cats chorusing on the branch conjoin to form one singing maw.