# animate! › Films › Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey by AL + AL

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, 3d cgi, live action and animation, motion tracking, invention, energy, family history, experimental short film, filmmaker, artist

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**Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey** a film by AL + AL

2004, 6 min 22 sec

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/404041796)

![Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey, still: Staging the Death of God](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/perpetualmotion07.jpg)

Staging the Death of God

### a film by AL + AL

### animate! synopsis

AL + AL’s grandfather James Brown is a retired engineer and inventor living in the north of England.

The film re-fabricates his lifelong endeavours to break the law of physics and create a perpetual motion device. Free power for the people will produce a land flowing with milk and honey.

### key credits

**director**
AL + AL

**Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey** film, stills and other materials © AL + AL 2004