How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2008
- The main protagonist of this short, surreal film is a man obsessed with control. In an automated world drained of all emotion, he is tortured by vague longings. Will he be able to transcend his obsessions and fears?
Directed by Craig Welch - 1996 - Фільми й анімація
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This is how I interpreted it: he was so obsessed with having complete control over everything that was truly free (such as the insect, or more importantly the bird, which is the ultimate symbol of freedom, because they can fly) that he lost his own freedom. He was lonely and what he wanted most was the love of the woman and no matter how hard he tried to get a hold of her and keep her to himself like the bird, she was intangible and just out of his reach. So he never got to experience her, he lost his head, which held his mind, which was what he used to justify himself rather than look to his heart to see what was more important (having control or experiencing freedom) and it was losing his head that freed him from his prison which was being trapped in a constant state of dissatisfaction and not being able to ever reach what could have remedied it.
At the end of life, all human struggles, anxieties, efforts to make sense of his world, mean nothing more than a bit of sand.
Vanity ,,,,every thing is vanity! King Solomon.
The Piano music is Chopin's Nocturne No. 1 in B flat Minor, Op 9, No1.
You're a hero, sir. Thanks!
Why does mostly play at christmas?
I see the woman actually being his dead wife, who he views as an angel. In order to bring her back he tries to structure an angel himself and goes insane from her death. That would explain her ghostliness, the worm part, and then his death, at least to me.
+TheSmartSheep this is the only rational explanation I've seen. lol
Perhaps he killed his wife. And now, he is repenting and seeing ghostly images of her.
TheSmartSheep 8
Only when I got 9 minutes through this film did I begin to consider 'What the fuck am I watching?'
Omg same
Me to! I was like 'What the actual fuck is this?'
It's called "art".
You need to watch more films if you think this is weird lmao
Theoretically, in order for humans to have wings on their back we would have to have hollow or at least much lighter bones. Not to mention that our wings would have to be very large and extremely muscular in order to do so. It would also take up lots of energy to do so. Flying in place for just a little bit would tire you out as much as running as fast as you can for several minutes (this may seem easy for some, but for most it can very tireing). Also, our bodies are extremely un-aerodynamic, meaning that we would have a difficult time just flying forward. There are several other factors of why having wings isn't what you think it is, but these are just a few.
I don't think this short film is meant to be taken "theoretically" or realistically. It is a surreal film. I understand how wings work just as well as you seem to, but it didn't distract me from the beautiful animation nor the story.
Liberty White sorry, i meant in reality. My comment had nothing to do with the video other than humans having wings. It was just a fun fact, nothing to hate on the video (i thought it was awesome)
+Chase Randalow That weird moment when you realize this is in the same place you left it when you read it a year ago.
great to ruin the moment
What are the other factors?
Bravo! This is art.... i was starving for something provoking,and this came along.I feel well fed now....
hats off to this film- maker!!! 5 stars and two thumbs up.
The sound design on this is AMAZING
this is great! i love the mysteriousness and distantness of it and yet how close it is to real life.
Well that was vaguely disturbing
To me it speaks to human beings searching for meaning and connection in the modern age. When you can have everything you've ever wanted at the touch of a button except for real love, your appetites become more perverse and eventually, you begin to hurt people in pursuit of them. Eventually, you lose the very thing that makes you human and become just another consumable thing
This short, ever since I first saw it at the NFBC kiosk in Toronto, has stuck with me. Perfect Edward Gorey meets David Lynch vibes. 🖤
That was pretty interesting. It kind of reminded me of how MTV used to be really late at night. Very artistic. Nice style of wordless expression and surreal animation. Hope to see more soon.
This was very unique and I hope to see more like it. I think the girl represented a lost love. Kind of like in the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Where he forbid the mention of the name in his house because it brought him so much pain, but there were just certain things that reminded him of that.
the shudder never came....
it just stayed......
gently resting
against my back.....
thankyou..
most wonderful....
I just saw this on SHORT channel on Directv and was completely mesmerized. I hoped so much it was on UA-cam. Thank you! Beautiful animation and even more beautiful story.
I think he's thinking about the woman he loved who died, and his own mortality.
He just passed away from COVID-19.
@@N37tron_Danc3 It’s not a joke. He’s a friend of a friend and he died last year.
This is the second time I've watched this and since studying year 12 advanced English I see so much more meaning within it. The first time I watched it I thought it was sweet but now I am utterly revolted. It's disgusting how far he is willing to go with his experiments... But it was very well made :)
+PersonCalledSteph Can you explain the meaning behind it,please?
Not really. I made this comment a year ago and meanings change between people and over time. I honestly can't remember what I pulled from it.
The music and the sounds were amazing. A very good imagination. Enjoyed this.
I love the way this film makes me feel...It just inspires me to do EVERYTHING creative.
7:25 is my favorite part. for some reason i think the transition is absolutely beautiful!
that was beautiful, yet disturbing. i genuinely don't know whether to run the hell upstairs and dive under the covers, or burst out into applause (though my family will probably look at me like i'm crazy). i think it's a shame that some people can't see the real beauty behind this animation, because it's a real work of art. the story is random yet morbidly fascinating. the classical music with the occasional sound effects- not to mention the lack of color- just wrap it up great.
hats off to you!
It has ben long long time since I watched something this good...
Mr Welsh-- congrats.. I am very pleased to watch this piece....
Many thanks
Armenia
I saw this like 5 years ago on a random public access channel and have had it in the back of my mind since then. Now I finally found it. Thanks, Don Hertzfeldt.
Damn curiosity, you scary!
Really amazing concept, the art was great the shading on everything was so dark and smooth- this deserves nothing less then a 5/5.
Brilliant, truly brilliant. Thank you Stephen.
Strange and yet so beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
Would love to hear what the creators of this film have to say about it. After reading the comments here I guess that a lot of people found it beautiful (like myself) and a lot of people on the other hand have found it 'creepy'. I think it's a mixture of both, although I didn't quite get the message that the artists were trying to give. So I'd love to know.
beautiful
This video... so eerie yet brilliant!
I watched this amazing film for the first time fifteen years ago, and I am just thrilled to see it again. Absolutely gorgeous.
Never watch while high
Whatever it meant, it was awesome!
This is by far the best video I've ever seen !!!
This is very amzing, Thank you.
I always just use a staplegun and hot glue.
Moral of the story, don't let strange weird bird ladies get in your house
COULD NOT STOP WATCHING! Great piece.
Wow! what a trip... Thank You...
Did anyone else think ME!ME!ME! When watching this?
Jup...
ME ME ME is kind of more what the fuck is going on and it's more colorful and trippy and it moves fast this is the opposite but with the what the
cool animated rube goldberg machine
I usually don't watch anything on the front page, but I felt compelled to watch this. I'm glad I did. Excellent work! Just... wonderful!
This is one of those videos where you don't find it amusing or exciting but you just have to watch it and it was fantastic! This actually made my day just from seeing that short story, and the way that it was told through pictures... Bravo!!!
Huh. I remember watching this video when I was younger, about 8 or so. I watched it over and over and over. I never "got" it when I was young but I loved it and watched it anyways. Bit weird now that I think of it but still nostalgic to find this vid again after all these years.
... and all this time I thought they just used staples.
Hauntingly beautiful!
So dark and beautiful! I loved it!
What the hell did I just watch?
Creepy in a sense, but I liked it.
amazing. everything is put together beautifully...
A truely great piece!
The first time I watched it which was right now.. I think the meaning of it is this man will literally kill people just to take bones from them and create his own angles, thinking that that's what it takes but really for you to be an angle doesn't mean you need wings. Which is why I this art you see the man open the girls back, his way of thinking that she's an angle but really there's no proof to be found by the bones for wings. Then when she walks out of the gate he discovers that she is an angle, how could he be so blind? After that he is then killed, putting all those deaths caused by him for his own art to peace. He died the same way he killed his own, which is in the beginning when he chopped off his head, same with the man. All those skull heads that he is out with is all of his own that he cut off, at least now there will be no more killings for art. This is all my opinion, I'm not sure if this is the real meaning but it's what I think and put together
Basically he is killing people to make angles, then an angle in disguise kills him.
*angel
Ayyleen Lira angles?
That's not how it works but it was really cool
Poetic, mysterious and wonderful.
Bizarre and un-nerving. Just when I think I understand...I suddenly don't! Artistic and very thought provoking. A little gem of a film.
Wow im not even sure what that was but it was Wow
Very interesting. I can't quite discern the meaning, however...
it's just great!!
Thaks for doing a short-film that really means something. Congratulations!!
awesome video . great music and sounds. and atmosphere was very full of it.
isnt the end like a pot or houreglass? if it is full she will get her wings. thats what i thought
hey is your logo meant to be the all seeing eye or the eye of sauron
Amazing! Really deep and it got to me right away! Really good job!
Great work, thank you
I can't tell if I like this or not...
figure it out yet?
How bout now
i dont get it
beautiful, haunting work!
Wow - a true piece of art!
did anyone else think of Monty Python?
me too :)
This=mind fuck
LOVE IT! MORE PLEASE!!!!
That was beautiful!
Why am I here?
I am also lost- I was just listening to foo fighters :/
Even better moral of the story: don't do drugs
so a damm beautiful explanation of despaired love... and interlaced processes....
just wonderful.
brilliant work!!!!! haunting..
What even is the point to this? Someone pls tell me .
He thought he can create an angel find the true logic in this fantasy but couldn't
ah. thanks
A brokenhearted man, who spended all his time and did the best he could to try to serve his girl like an angel. At the end, he found out that the girl would have never been as he expected. She dumped him, and broke his heart just like men fell, out of love.
So "how wings are attached to the back of angels" is a tricky title inviting all men who think the same as that man.
lesson don't turn women into birds, or shit hits the fan
WOW!!! Love it!!
awsome! that is a work of art, a masterpiece!
wtf did i just watch XD
Porn
This film says.........
........... nothing.
+Kless Arkein yeh
+Kless Arkein The meaning is that through his morbid experiments, he turned himself absolutely insane. He was trying to "play God" and create things, and the world - for lack of better terms - turned on him for it.
+Glitchy Wolf - "through his morbid experiments, he turned himself absolutely insane" - no, he simply wasted his life, trying to recreate natural beauty. Maybe the next scientist would have better luck - it happens sometimes.
very well put together. I liked it
thank you for the film. excellent animation and sound design. creepy and daunting.
Wow, so thought provoking. I may never forget this.
Wow! I like this kind of art
Absolute perfection A work of superior genius!!!!
That was so beautiful...
Ich mag dieses Viedeo sehr!
es ist seltsam und hat mich sehr verwirrt!
Sehr gute Arbeit
That was actually fun to watch, and the sound design was great, too.
Amazing! I have no words!
I don't know whether to be disturbed, amused or intrigued...amazing!
This is beyond what I could achieve...Very good film!!
Wow.That was thought provoking.The artwork alone is amazeing.
thank you!! i was looking for this short animation since 2010 ,7 years i was looking for that, trying to remember the name of this short film, god bless you
Wild,
Great Video
That was exactly what i needed to watch before going to sleep, well done...
really great work!
absolutely brilliant work and such a sad story
"I built my love a cage of gold
To joy her into song,
And wistfully, with woe untold,
I waited long and long;
But from that home so exquisite
No tiny tune would come,
And though my heart with hope was lit,
My bird was dumb. "
Loved it! Creepy, but insanely interesting. Reading the description helps.