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The Queens Monastery

Emma Calder · UK · Romance / Drama / Animation · 6 min · 13K views

Directed by Emma Calder · 1998

A woman's lover, a former acrobat, comes home from war a changed man, and she drifts between love, fantasy, obsession and guilt.

Lush, fluid watercolour animation set to Janáček's Sinfonietta, as distinctive in technique as it is in mood.

The Queen's Monastery (Water Colour Animation)

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