Jabberwocky

Presents, in a tour de force of animation techniques, a series of scenes in which the toys and games and related paraphenalia of childhood perform various activities. Juxtaposes images of formal loveliness with childlike gaity, mythic superstition, and surprising and perverse violence. Begins with a reading of the Lewis Carroll poem but, rather than interpreting it, takes off on the absurd suggestiveness of the poetic images., Presents, in a tour de force of animation techniques, a series of scenes in which the toys and games and related paraphenalia of childhood perform various activities. Juxtaposes images of formal loveliness with childlike gaity, mythic superstition, and surprising and perverse violence. Begins with a reading of the Lewis Carroll poem but, rather than interpreting it, takes off on the absurd suggestiveness of the poetic images.