An Anatomy of Melancholy (2000)

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 handdrawn 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