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The Cat Piano

Eddie White & Ari Gibson · Australia · Fantasy / Poem / Film Noir / Animation · 9 min · 1.2M views

Directed by Ari Gibson, Eddie White · Starring Nick Cave · 2009

In a noir city of cats, the town's singers vanish one by one into a monstrous instrument, and a world-weary poet resolves to bring them back.

Nick Cave narrates this gorgeous, darkly stylish noir poem about a city of cats and a monstrous musical instrument.

A dark, animated fantasy pulled off with style and panache. The Musicians of this cat-town have disappeared, sacrificed to the infernal Cat Piano. Our world-weary hero must fight to get them back.

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