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An Anatomy of Melancholy (2000)

An Anatomy of Melancholy (2000)

Animation
Release Date: 2000, April 24
Directors: Jo Ann Kaplan
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Finetake Productions, Animate!, Arts Council of England, Channel 4 Television
Cast: Fayida Jailler

Overview:

"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..."