The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom

The Epic of Gilgamesh, or This Unnameable Little Broom aka Little Songs of the Chief Officer of Hunar Louse is a 1985 stop motion short film by The Brothers Quay. The film is loosely based on the first tablet of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Boasting the longest title in the Quays entire output, this 1985 film is generally known as This Unnameable Little Broom. The short began life as a proposed hourlong program Channelexploring aspects of the ancient Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the oldest known surviving work of literature, which would combine puppet animation, dance sequences, and liveaction documentary elements. However, Channel Four were unsure about the project, and only agreed to fund a short animated sequence as a pilot which is all that was ultimately made.

As a symbolic representation, Gilgameshs world is one of evil and deceit, simultaneously laced with psychosexual tension and personal resonance for the Quays. The medical hooks, rusting scissors, and razor sharp hightension wires all imply a castration theme, accentuated not just by the sadistic mechanical trap that Gilgamesh sets but also by the sequence in which he places two eggs on a slicing wicket, positioning them where his own testicles should be. Such brutal and sexually violent imagery would reoccur in the brothers other films, most notably in Street of Crocodiles, where organic materials are organized into representations of male genitals then pierced with tailors pins.In the epic poem Gilgamesh is King of Uruk and oppresses its citizens. In the Quays adaption he is lord over an isolated kingdom where he is the sole denizen. ........

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