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The Cat Piano
Title:
The Cat Piano
NFSA ID
793840
Year
2009
The Cat Piano, which you can watch here in full, is a short animation narrated by Nick Cave.
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town's singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.
The delivery of the poem by musician Nick Cave is reminiscent of poetry associated with the Beat Generation, such as 'Howl' by Alan Ginsberg. The music complements this approach.
The animation employs a limited colour palette of purple, white, green and red against shaded black.
Directors
Ari Gibson and Eddie White
Production company
The People's Republic of Animation
Narrator
Nick Cave
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.