"When beloved director Spike Jonze, he of Being John Malkovic and Where The Wild Things Are fame, met handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan, he fell in love with her intricate embroidery and asked for an embroidered cover of Catcher in the Rye to put on his wall. Le-Tan agreed, but asked for a film in return. The result was Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) — an absolutely beautiful stop-motion animation for book-lovers.
Set inside iconic Parisian bookstore, the film tells the story of the skeleton from the cover of Macbeth, voiced by Jonze himself, who falls in love with Mina Harker on the cover of Dracula. He sets out to meet her, but loses his head to a French version of The Big Clock on the way, trips and falls into Faulkner’s Sartoris,
and is then swallowed by Moby-Dick. Harker, voiced by French singer
Soko, springs to his rescue, punching the legendary whale in the face
with a mischievous smirk. The happily-ever-after ending comes only after
an appropriately dark and grim twist."
No embedding possible but here's the link: To Die by your Side.
I totally enjoyed this short :)
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