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This video, animated by Sophie Koko Gate, features an excerpt from the poem “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman, and is narrated by Peter Blegvad. Produced for Harvard University's Fundamentals of Neuroscience course, the Poetry of Perception animated series looks to poetry to explain sensory perceptions.
Featuring the poem “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” by Emily Dickinson, narrated by Anna Martine, this video was animated by Hannah Jacobs for Poetry of Perception, a series of scientific animated short films.
With animation by Isaac Holland, this video features the poem “Smell” by William Carlos Williams, and is narrated by the poet. The Poetry of Perception short animation series focuses on representations of sensory perceptions and is produced for Harvard University's Fundamentals of Neuroscience course.
Narrated by English actor Julian Sands, this animated film, part of the anthology Extraordinary Tales, is based on a lesser-known short story by Edgar Allan Poe, a detective tale about a man mesmerized in articulo mortis. Extraordinary Tales is composed of five stories by Poe, featuring the voices of Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Roger Corman, and Guillermo del Toro, and is directed by Raul Garcia.
This animated film, narrated by the late actor Christopher Lee, is part of an anthology composed of five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, each with a different visual style to evoke the unique tone of the tales. Extraordinary Tales is directed by Raul Garcia and features the voices of Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, and Guillermo del Toro.
In this short film, illustrator Avi Ofer animates a voice memo recorded by Amanda Palmer in which she describes speaking to her husband, Neil Gaiman, during a dream.
Patrick deWitt's follow-up to The Sisters Brothers (Ecco, 2011) is described as "a love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners," and will be released by Ecco next month.
In this 1967 interview with Studs Terkel, Hunter S. Thompson talks about the inspiration for his first book, Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Random House, 1966). The video was animated by Patrick Smith for PBS Digital Studios' Blank on Blank series.
In this short film presented by Electric Literature, a sentence from Etgar Keret's short story "Todd" is animated by Tatia Rosenthal and set to music by Christopher Bowen. Keret's new memoir, The Seven Good Years, was published this month by Riverhead Books and is featured in Page One in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
This animated trailer for Rebecca Dinerstein's debut novel, The Sunlit Night (Bloomsbury, 2015), was created by Jonty de Klerk. Read more about Dinerstein in “First Fiction 2015" in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, and catch her tour in the Reading Tour Manager.
