What if your morning alarm held reality together? These tiny suited dwarfs know.
A huge alarm clock takes care of a happy planet. It is inhabited by dwarfs wearing suits and ties. When the alarm clock breaks down, the dwarfs try to repair the huge mechanism.
Direction
Kuziemski's patient, hypnotic observation of miniature labor
Production
Hand-crafted world where scale feels genuinely uncanny
Director
Ryszard Kuziemski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made in 1968 Poland, this wordless short echoes Eastern Bloc anxieties about systemic breakdown and invisible labor.
Kuziemski's background in puppet animation explains the tactile, weighted quality of every dwarf movement—they feel physically exhausted.
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