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Clip description
As Jasper Morello (Joel Edgerton) reflects on the navigational error which resulted in a man’s death and may have cost Jasper his career, his wife Amelia (Jude Beaumont) hands him the letter assigning him to his next voyage.
Curator’s notes
The film opens in the imaginary industrial city of Gothia. Chimneys belch smoke into the sepia-toned atmosphere populated by bulky mechanical contraptions which seem to float effortlessly through space. Anthony Lucas’s silhouette animation style reveals little of the characters’ facial expressions, adding to the sense of mystery evoked by Jasper’s reflection that one degree can be 'enough to unmake a man’ and by the unexplained falling figure of a man seen in this clip. The music (by Bruce Rowland) and sound effects (by John Rowland) – particularly the man’s scream and the sound of a bell tolling in the background – add to the film’s sense of impending doom.
