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An Anatomy of Melancholy (2000)
Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan
Animation · 13m
"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of a dissected human body, we witness both the act of creation and a testament to our own passing. Accompanying the simple but powerful images of the human body, we hear the words of Keats' Ode on Melancholy: "Ay, in the very temple of Delight. Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."
Cast
Fayida Jailler
Crew
- Director
- Jo Ann Kaplan
- Producer
- Dick Arnall
Details
- Release date
- 2000-04-24
- Runtime
- 13m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Finetake Productions, Animate!, Arts Council of England, Channel 4 Television