Prisoners and slaves from birth, chained able to look only beyond the bottom of a dark cave.

La Caverna, the beautiful 2D shorts video made by Hello, Savants!, is inspired by surrealism and, of course, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
In black and white, and only made of geometries, it tells the phases of the myth with a perfect intensity.

And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.

 

[vimeo]https://vimeo.com/213777502[/vimeo]