Films : An Anatomy of Melancholy : synopses
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…”
