The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph

Grim visual poetry. Grimy, grungy, and grueling. Even for a surrealist body horror film, this short is pretty weird. The animation has something off about it, as does most stop motion, and the off putting quality works as another brilliant addition to the film's bleak and disturbing mood.

Directed by Robert Morgan, a modern master of animation, "The Man in the Lower-Left Hand Corner of the Photograph" is more or less what one could expect of him. Although it must be noted that using the word "expect" in any context while referring to this film is a little misleading, as nothing that occurs in this filthy nightmare is at all expected, particularly the oddly bittersweet ending, as well as the rather unpleasant imagery depicting a gruesome combination of sex and death-two themes often explored in great works of art.

We have an old guy who is practically dead. He is decaying before our eyes. He imagines a younger woman loving him. Now the lady next door hangs herself. And off we go! This is so vividly sickening, all the way through. i could almost smell the decay, just from the images.