Stuffed owl, allispossible.org.uk, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

This fascinating animation clip is from a film called Renaissance , made in 1963 by Walerian Borowczyk. The stop-motion animation shows a destroyed room that slowly puts itself back together. It suggests that a ghost is moving everything around and reconstructing each broken item.

Among the broken objects that come back to life are a doll, a stuffed owl, a trumpet, books, and furniture. If you want a film that feels a bit spooky but is also incredibly cool in the way it was made, this is a great one to watch in the week leading up to Halloween. My mind is always blown by what artists can make with stop motion, everyday objects, and their imagination.

The very last object that puts itself together is a bomb. Once the bomb goes off, everything in the room breaks into pieces again.…