A film-poem created for Counterclock Journal's 2023 Patchwork: Film x Poetry fellowship, featuring an original poem by Mackenzie Duan and animation by Evan Bode.
24 Aug 2023
In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia), I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I sincerely express my deep desire to regain my freedom and vitality by sharing not only my progress but also my relapses. Through the interweaving of drawings and poetry, I share this quest for reconstruction, which I hope will help raise awareness of this mental illness and bring a little hope to people affected by it and those around them.
21 May 2022
This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.
01 Jan 1978
This film visualizes humanity’s quest to relentlessly pursue goals. In the human fight for progress, the march forward cannot be stopped, even when individual people become weary and die. This animated short is based on a poem by the Chilean filmmaker and poet Juan Forch. Chilean painter Hernando León created the design.
16 Jan 2003
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.
23 Apr 2017
An animated telling of Kobe Bryant's titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.
11 Dec 1987
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
19 Mar 1980
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
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07 May 2017
In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.
15 Apr 1981
Réne Manzor's debut short, a surreal story about a tramp trying to build a road through the desert.
29 Jan 2021
A narrative poem brought to life and an ode to a grandfather's passing, NAMOO—which translates to “tree” in Korean—follows the journey of a budding artist from beginning to end.
26 Aug 2008
Tim Burton's original poem narrated by Christopher Lee.
05 Feb 2025
A diary of a boy grappling with identity, love and belonging while exploring our fragile journey through a chaotic world.
01 Dec 2021
Death follows a poet for his whole life, being a parasite to the poet.
02 Jun 1965
A cellist attempts to rescue a woman swept out to sea, only to find he must battle a series of overly possesive sea creatures.
01 Jan 1982
The third film of the biographical cycle based on Pushkin's drawings and texts.
22 Jul 2021
After meeting one day, a shy boy who expresses himself through haiku and a bubbly but self-conscious girl share a brief, magical summer.
17 Nov 2023
Inés sets out on a voyage of discovery around India in search of Ladyland, the Utopian land of women.
01 Sep 2023
A young non-binary person feels overwhelmed and wants to escape - literally, to the moon.
13 Dec 2016
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