Hen, His Wife (1990)

Overview : Extraordinarily detailed and beautifully drawn animation of a bizarre and surreal world; the domestic life of a fat man, his wife, a sort of oversized obese chicken, and their child/pet, a slug-like creature with a human head. This expressionistic and interior vision of Soviet animator Kovalyov is like an animated Eraserhead. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, Academy War Film Collection, in 2007.

Release Date : May 1, 1990

Runtime : 13m

Genre : Animation  

Companies : Studio "Pilot"

Countries : Soviet Union

Keywords : chicken, surreal, dream sequence, marital crisis, short film, husband wife conflict, preserved film