Ai-yé

Duration: 27

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Film Images

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: An experimental, impressionistic film suggesting the universal story of mankind's voyage through life and the world. Beginning while he and the animals sleep and dream of the past, Man is taken through tropical lagoons from birth, through childhood, adolescence, pain, struggle, old age, death and burial in the mouth of a volcano in the clouds. Man returns to the ocean only to re-emerge and begin the search for the source of life. A film without narration.

Complete Record: An experimental, impressionistic film suggesting the universal story of mankind's voyage through life and the world. Beginning while he and the animals sleep and dream of the past, Man is taken through tropical lagoons from birth, through childhood, adolescence, pain, struggle, old age, death and burial in the mouth of a volcano in the clouds. Man returns to the ocean only to re-emerge and begin the search for the source of life. A film without narration.