Feeling frisky Maya Deren's white male cat gets into some afternoon delight with the female and reaps the whirlwind with a series of lookalikes that he will have a hard time denying are his. The two get along well though and the old man actually shows interest in the offspring.
Outside of a graphic birth scene, Private Life is simply a banal short subject in search of a perky narrator. The stakes are high though with avant garde darling Maya Deren and her trusty live-in camera man Alex Hammid both of groundbreaking Meshes in the Afternoon fame as authors. But outside of the comic stereotyping of the the tom in the last scene (actually a repeat of the first) the only thing this feline film can claim is that it was far ahead of the curve for what is in this day and age the rage, cat videos!
Outside of a graphic birth scene, Private Life is simply a banal short subject in search of a perky narrator. The stakes are high though with avant garde darling Maya Deren and her trusty live-in camera man Alex Hammid both of groundbreaking Meshes in the Afternoon fame as authors. But outside of the comic stereotyping of the the tom in the last scene (actually a repeat of the first) the only thing this feline film can claim is that it was far ahead of the curve for what is in this day and age the rage, cat videos!