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René Laloux, France, 1973, 72 min
This screening is in collaboration with Nature of Things with their current exhibit Earthlicker, featuring paintings by LA-based Ellen Khansefid and sculptural wall works by Dallas-area-based Clint Bargers, on view from June 27 – August 15, 2026, located at 3002A Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75226. Watch both Fantastic Planet & Morvern Callar for a discounted bundle of $15!
This exhibition explores a fetishistic gaze through Khansefid’s interest in celebrity, erotica, and internet sub-cultures, while Bargers’ sculptures engage with body modification—through use of ear gauge eyelets, tribal tattoo design, and hollowed-out forms—they can be seen through or only from the sides.
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.
René Laloux, France, 1973, 72 min
This screening is in collaboration with Nature of Things with their current exhibit Earthlicker, featuring paintings by LA-based Ellen Khansefid and sculptural wall works by Dallas-area-based Clint Bargers, on view from June 27 – August 15, 2026, located at 3002A Commerce St. Dallas, TX 75226. Watch both Fantastic Planet & Morvern Callar for a discounted bundle of $15!
This exhibition explores a fetishistic gaze through Khansefid’s interest in celebrity, erotica, and internet sub-cultures, while Bargers’ sculptures engage with body modification—through use of ear gauge eyelets, tribal tattoo design, and hollowed-out forms—they can be seen through or only from the sides.
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags’ oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.