dir. Helmut Herbst

2006 // 1 hr // Digital Projection

Animation Club returns with wildly trippy cosmic German psychedelic animation out the gate! What happens when a group of intellectuals and stoners from Berlin are set adrift into space in 1972 inside a shipping container clutched by a giant flying hand? Come take the trip and find out for yourself with this newly restored hidden gem of surreal world animation!

Based on a 1974 film by Herbst called “Die phantastische Welt des Matthew Madson,” CATHEDRAL was eventually finished after a decades-long gestation in 2006. One of the rarest and most obscure tiles in world animation and never before officially released on physical media, CATHEDRAL has been newly restored from the original camera negative and sound elements by Deaf Crocodile with the cooperation of Herbst’s wife, Renate Merck. In German with English subtitles.

'ANIMATION CLUB' is an ongoing series that celebrates new and classic animated films from around the world! From studio titans to hidden indie gems; traditional 2D to stop-motion, 3D animation, experimental, and everything in-between!