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Entertainment
Stream Netflix’s Musical Short Anima,
a Dream For These Modern Times
By Ryan Rojas for cinemacy.com
While movie theaters remain closed through
this ongoing period of social-distancing, we
can look to the abundance of films that are
available to watch across all streaming platforms
(though do support your local cinema
through the purchase of gift cards, if you can).
For this week’s review, I want to take the
opportunity to recommend something that is
currently available to stream, yet is something
that you may have yet to see or even have
added to your queue. But at only fifteen minutes
long (did I mention that it’s a short?), you
should feel comforted to know that you won’t
be outside of your comfort zone for too long.
Now streaming on Netflix, Anima is a musical
short film from Radiohead lead singer Thom
Yorke and filmmaker Paul Thoms Anderson.
Where one could liken Anima to an extended
music video, Anima really does operate as a
short film. Ambitiously abstract and conceptual
in nature (the film touts itself as a “mindbending
visual piece”), Anima is a loosely
narrative story of an unnamed man (Yorke)
who, amidst the dream-inducing drudgery of
working-class life, finds a woman (Dajana
Roncione) only to lose her, and attempts to
find her again through obstacles and oppressive
forces.
I’m not exactly sure why Anima feels like
the right film to recommend this week, given
the state of everything right now. But as I
think through it more, I find that a few things
leap out at me since I’ve recently watched it
than when it first started streaming last year
(I first saw it at an advanced screening at an
IMAX theater). Quite simply, the thematic
undertones of Anima dramatize how, through
the society we’ve created and actively participate
in, that we have grown to sleepwalk
through a mechanized, spiritless life. The
amazing choreography (by Damien Jalet) sees
a host of dancers envelope Yorke throughout
the piece (with Yorke evoking Buster Keatonlike
comedy), and blend movements that are
a battle between the soulessly dazed and the
spiritually awakened.
I don’t intend nor wish to hide the fact that I
am also a fan of both Yorke and Anima’s filmmaker,
Paul Thomas Anderson (if you need a
further recommendation of a film to see, make
sure you’ve seen the rest of Anderson’s films
including The Master and Phantom Thread).
Beyond the film’s other artistic credits (with
projections by Tarik Barri and photography
by the great cinematographer Darius Jhnodji),
Anima leaves the viewer with a very real sense
of what dreaming through real life can feel
like. Now feels like a moment where we’ve all
woken from a shared, comfortable dream, and
must reassert how we wish to live our lives
now that we’ve awakened. 15 minutes. ‘Anima’
is not rated. Now streaming on Netflix. •
Thom Yorke in Anima. Photo courtesy of Netflix.
Ryan Rojas
Film Review
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