Cat's Cradle

In a wordless gothic fable, witches, cloaked riders and other strange figures are linked in a chain where one life leads into the next.

Paul Driessen's inventive, darkly playful animation turns the food chain into a gothic game of cat's cradle.

This short animated fable stars witches, cloaked riders and other Gothic characters, in a tale about the hungry natural world. Here the artist plays cat's cradle with ideas, especially the notion that one thing leads to

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