Phantom of Venus

October. 30,2022

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Animation Documentary

Keywords：

Short Film Stop Motion Animation

Trailer Synopsis Cast

The second part of the series Cypriot Collage Stories sketches out the history of this Mediterranean island as a conflict of its two mothers – Aphrodite and Virgin Mary. Animations and collages are intertwined with found footage of the 1974 Turkish invasion of the island, revealing the obvious fact that modern conflicts are rooted in history.

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Reviews

Marketic

2022/10/30

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

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Senteur

2022/10/31

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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Bergorks

2022/11/01

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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filippaberry84

2022/11/02

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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