Triangle

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Title

Triangle

Description

Note: This film contains sexual content.

Animated in a German Expressionist style—an art form deeply despised by the Nazis—the short is set in the final years of the Weimar Republic, during the Nazis' rise to power and eventual control over Germany.

The pink triangle symbol was designed by the Nazis during World War II as a badge to identify and classify queer AMAB individuals imprisoned in concentration camps.

This is the first animated film to explore the significance of the pink triangle. In 1993, the television program In the Life featured an excerpt of the short in episode 303 as part of a news segment on the pink triangle. To learn more about its history, visit the Holocaust Encyclopedia.

Source

Director: Bob Doucette
Year: 1989
Country: United States
Gender and Sexuality: Queer, queer coded, transgender
Animation Style: Traditional
Genre: Drama
Type: Explicit, implicit, short

Can currently be watched on Internet Archive or Light Cone: https://lightcone.org/en/film-445-triangle

Files

Citation

“Triangle,” Queer Animation, accessed June 16, 2025, https://queeranimation.omeka.net/items/show/185.
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