Renaissance (also known as Renesans) is a 1963 French reverse stop-motion animation short film directed by Walerian Borowczyk.
[1][2][3] The opening credits of the short include a dedication to experimental filmmaker Hy Hirsh, who died from a heart attack in 1961.
Finally, a bomb pieces itself back together and explodes, reducing the items to debris once more.
Film critic Raymond Durgnat describes Renaissance as "a remembrance of things past, a meditation on a peasant-bourgeois stability, on what in it was life-affirming, what life-denying ...
Bonus content included an introduction by filmmaker Terry Gilliam; Film Is Not a Sausage, a featurette about Borowczyk's short films, with archival footage of the filmmaker and interviews with director André Heinrich, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, and composer Bernard Parmegiani; Blow Ups, a visual essay by Daniel Bird about Borowczyk's paintings and poster work; a 32-page essay featuring essays and reviews on the director's work, as well as detailed restoration and projection notes; and several commercials made by Borowczyk during his career.