Films : An Anatomy of Melancholy : all
animate! synopsis
Drawing on despair, sketching the skeleton. Mortality marks. From Keats to Robert Burton, a major body of woe is made. Light is not the only thing that is passing.
long synopsis
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…”
key credits
- director
- Jo Ann Kaplan
- John Keat's Ode on Melancholy read by
- Fayida Jailler
- director of photography
- Hugh Gordon
- animation
- Jo Ann Kaplan
- composer
- Thom Willems
- producer
- Dick Arnall
- production company
Jo Ann Kaplan
a film by Jo Ann Kaplan
direction
- director
- Jo Ann Kaplan
based upon
- actual credit
- based upon
- title of original material
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- author
- Robert Burton
- type of adapted source material
- anatomy book
voice-over
- John Keat's Ode on Melancholy read by
- Fayida Jailler
live-action personnel
- director of photography
- Hugh Gordon
image personnel
- animation
- Jo Ann Kaplan
- visual effects
- Mark Holden
- telecine operator or colourist
- Max Horton
- Mark Horrobin
sound personnel
- composer
- Thom Willems
production personnel
- post production producer
- Julia Wigginton, The Moving Picture Company
- producer
- Dick Arnall, Finetake Productions
- production company
- Finetake Productions
support
- primary funding
Funded by the Arts Council of England and Channel Four
© Jo Ann Kaplan 2000
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master copy format
- format
- DigiBeta
- colour or black & white
- colour
video distribution format
- video format
- BetaSP
- screen aspect ratio
- 4:3
- video standard
- PAL
- sound type
- stereo
distributor
LUX
info@lux.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
www.lux.org.uk
