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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/anatomyofmelancholy01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/anatomyofmelancholy01.jpg)

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