The Unnamable

The Beckett Apmonia led me to a film clip. Scroll down to "Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable" and view the quicktime film. The short is based on Samuel Beckett's novel by the same name. Like all of Beckett's work, it is very strange. Seemingly meaningless, it is at the same time very disturbing. Here is the description of the film:

This film animates body parts, chess pieces and mechnical motifs as life's conveyor belt threatens to grind to a halt, but never does.
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The bizarre film shows paper doll parts of a human body laid out and a set of hands moving the parts around, attempting to fit them together. A clock ticks away, as if to rush the maker. The body goes together but the pieces are mismatched. The body has an iron jaw, an armor shoulder and a disfigured claw-like hand.

A piece of paper (the instructions) are folded up and fed to the man. The man is electrocuted (it seems), then his eyes flicker and he comes to life. The film ends with the man on his knees, groping around, his head attached to a string.