Movie Details
Original Language:French
Mathusalem
Audience Score
DirectorJean Painlevé
9 min
Plot
Mathusalem (or Methuselah) is a 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd. The 1927 run of the play saw five sequences-- some of Jean Painlevé's earliest film work-- projected against a backdrop of white clouds.
