OK, here are the new links for Les dent du singe, and (a proper rip of) Les escargots. The rip of Les temps mort has been in circulation for quite a while.
Born in 1929, Laloux wanted to become a painter. Biographers note that in the mid-50s he took on several different jobs to get by; he was subsequently employed by the Cour-Cheverny psychiatric clinic, where he would put on puppet shows for the mentally handicapped. In 1960, he directed his first short film, Les dents du singe, written and drawn by the clinic’s patients.
In 1964, Laloux started directing professionally, creating two more shorts (in collaboration with Roland Topor). Les temps morts (1964) satirizes the role of death and killing in human culture, whereas Les escargots (1965) stands as a warning against the excesses-of-the-age as we witness the human civilization being destroyed by snails which have grown to monstrous proportions upon consuming an overabundant harvest of lettuce.
Laloux's first feature length film, La planète sauvage, won Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1973. This intensely poetic sci-fi animation depicts an extraterrestrial world populated by the domineering giant Traags and the oppressed humanoid Oms. The author's interest for surreal imagery in a sci-fi setting was maintained in the two works that followed, Les maîtres du temps (1982) and Gandahar (1988).
René Laloux passed away on March 14, 2004 in Angoulême, France. Even though his artistic output remained regrettably spare, the unique cinematic style established by his films secured an honorable position within the body of intellectual animation.
"What suggests is superior to what shows. Movies today show more and more. It's a paranoid dictator cinema. What we need is schizophrenic cinema."