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

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.

An Anatomy of Melancholy is a cinematic meditation on mortality that takes the form of a special anatomy book – one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn 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’s Ode on Melancholy: 'Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine…'

Director Jo Ann Kaplan
Based upon The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
John Keats's Ode on Melancholy read by Fayida Jailler
Director of Photography Hugh Gordon
Animation Jo Ann Kaplan
Visual Effects Mark Holden
Colourists Max Horton & Mark Horrobin
Composer Thom Willems
Post Production Producer Julia Wigginton, The Moving Picture Company
Producer Dick Arnall
Production Company Finetake Productions