# animate! › Films › An Anatomy of Melancholy by Jo Ann Kaplan

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/anatomyofmelancholy/

Discovery terms: 2000s animation, hand-drawn animation, the body, mortality, melancholy, poetry film, filmmaker, film editor

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**An Anatomy of Melancholy** a film by Jo Ann Kaplan

2000, 13 min 03 sec

![An Anatomy of Melancholy, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/anatomyofmelancholy04.jpg)

### a film by Jo Ann Kaplan

### 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.

### 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**

**An Anatomy of Melancholy** film, stills and other materials © Jo Ann Kaplan 2000