‘The Hunger’: An impressively repulsive computer-animated short from 1974

animation enjoyer on Instagram: "A fragment from "Hunger (La Faim)" (1974). Peter Foldes’ digital nightmare about appetite and excess. Made in Paris at the National Film Board of Canada’s satellite lab, it was one of the first films animated with computer interpolation, key-frames drawn by hand, every in-between calculated by a 1970s mainframe. The story is simple: a man eats, transforms, consumes everything, and becomes the thing he devours. It’s capitalism, hunger, and evolution in one fluid m