A Catalog of Anticipations
- Fantasy
- Animation
Overview
A woman drifts back to childhood memories of rural Texas where her discovery of the jawbone of a horse in a field leads to a fascination with, in her own words, ""dead things."" Her natural history collection of insects and bones takes on a supernatural quality when she finds the corpse of a strange creature that she believes must be a faery. Using still photographs, found objects and unsettling creations that briefly come to life via stop-motion animation (which evokes the work of the Brothers Quay and gives them an even more unreal presence), filmmaker David Lowery tells a phantasmagorical story, part fantastical mystery and part nightmare, as a primal memory. A CATALOG OF ANTICIPATIONS weaves imagination and experience into a haunting tale recalled in snapshots of recollection, a dark fantasy with a tactile texture that grounds it in the physical world and narration that frames it as a coming-of-age moment. - Sean Axmaker
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 19, 2008
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Road Dog Productions
- Director
- David Lowery
- Writer
- David Lowery
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt1161406