The Living Book

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2021 · 80 min · Animation

Overview

The Living Book combines live action and animation to describe a couple’s bickering attempts to account for all of human culture, post-apocalypse, as their own memories fail them. Partly inspired by the Doukhobors’ (a 17th-century Christian sect in Poland) Living Book, Erin Cosgrove’s film also draws on such diverse source material as string-theory, science fiction, and religious history. Meditative and humorous, the film confronts its overtly broad theme within the frame of an ongoing argument between two lifetime intimates.

Directed by Erin Cosgrove

Cast

• Scott Keely — Marcolf
• Janelle Ranek — Reynard
• Dawn Krosnowski — H.I.N.B.R.A.N.D
• Tom Joyal — Marcolf's Cat
• Don Cosgrove — Solomon