It’s not often that animation uses elements of horror to tell a moral story. For director Paul O’Flanagan, Memento Mori was a way to bridge his interests of the macabre with a graphic novel art style and combine them into one animated short film. Inspired by graphic novel artists like Patric Reynolds, O’Flanagan managed to use a similar art style to accentuate the gothic Victorian setting with a muted palette reminiscent of the era.
In Memento Mori, a self-serving post-mortem photographer is confronted by his past when the corpse of a young woman arrives for a portrait. To give the viewer a better impression of the main character Huxley, voiced by Mark Gatiss, the film is narrated by the character as he writes a letter to a prospective new hire. As he documents his work process in a scientific and clinical manner, his reality become altered as his guilt weighs upon him.
In Memento Mori, a self-serving post-mortem photographer is confronted by his past when the corpse of a young woman arrives for a portrait. To give the viewer a better impression of the main character Huxley, voiced by Mark Gatiss, the film is narrated by the character as he writes a letter to a prospective new hire. As he documents his work process in a scientific and clinical manner, his reality become altered as his guilt weighs upon him.
- 11/16/2021
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
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