The British Film Institute has announced
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life for release on May 17, in the BFI's new Dual Format Edition package (containing both a Blu-ray and DVD disc). Audio will be presented in DTS-HD Master Audio.
Institute Benjamenta is the first live-action feature from renowned animators, The Quay Brothers.
Special features include:
- Inside the Institute: an in-between world: new documentary exploring the making of the film through interviews with the Quays, Mark Rylance, Alice Krige and principle cast crew
- On the set of Institute Benjamenta
- Trailer
- Eurydice - She, So Beloved: Orpheus' attempt to rescue his dead lover Eurydice from Hades
- Songs for Dead Children: Steve Martland's Street Songs realised in eerily-beautiful animation
- The Comb: the ingenious 1990 animated short which paved the way for the Quays' first feature
- Illustrated booklet of newly commissioned essays and notes