"SATIEMANIA" by Zdenkó Gasparovich 1978 (FULL)

Wonderful animation from Croatia by Oscar nominated Zdenkó Gasparovich.

Giannalberto Bendazzi 1994 "CARTOONS: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation" quote.

"The best film ever to come out of the studio on the Sava river is the result of the uneven career of Zdenko Gasparovic. Coming to animation in 1957, for several years Gasparovic worked as an animator of series. In 1966, he directed the unpretentious short "Pasji Zivot" ("A Dog's Life, 1966); whereupon he moved to North America, dividing his life between California and Canada and his interests between advertising and series. Among others he worked with Hanna & Barbera. Returning home, he continued to work on series, working on "Kisobran" ("The Umbrella", 1972) - a 1972 first episode of a series which never took off - and some episodes of "Professor Balthazar".
Finally, in 1978 he released "Satiemania", where piano music by Erik Satie acts as the connecting link for images of women in love, bored women, the Grand Canyon and Montparnasse, bars, brothels and supermarkets, breasts, butchered beef and boats in the rain. Grotesque and sensual, the film is a long voyage inside the subconscious where the influences of Otto Dix or George Grosz mix with those of underground comics, Reginald Marsh, Covarrubias and Ralph Steadman. "Satiemania"won the grand prize at the 1978 Zagreb festival, and innumerable awards all over the world."