A Catalog of Anticipations (2008)

A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with in her own words dead things Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds the corpse of a strange creature that she believes must be a faery Using still photographs found objects and unsettling creations that briefly come to life via stopmotion animation which evokes the work of the Brothers Quay and gives them an even more unreal presence filmmaker David Lowery tells a phantasmagorical story part fantastical mystery and part nightmare as a primal memory A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS weaves imagination and experience into a haunting tale recalled in snapshots of recollection a dark fantasy with a tactile texture that grounds it in the physical world and narration that frames it as a comingofage moment Sean Axmaker