The Return of John Frum
MovieTitle | The Return of John Frum |
User score | 7 |
Release date | May 1, 2010 |
Genre | Animation, Adventure |
Director | Christian Schlaeffer |
Production country | Germany |
Production companies | University of Applied Sciences Augsburg |
Run time | 7 min. |
John Frum, Messiah of Polynesian Cargo Cults, returns as an astronaut and businessman to the postindustrial wasteland of the financial-service-economy. Embarking on a "conquest of the useless" things get confused and what begins as a journey becomes a trip beyond the boundaries of so called logic and meaning. Realised in beautifully crafted animation and innovatively rendered background art, the telling of this story is thick with atmosphere and celebrates a renaissance of the unconscious freed from the technocratic shackles of our times.