Shadow Brain
Stories
Ninety-second films in cut paper and lamplight. Each one tells an old story straight, then says in one line what it was about. No lectures, no lists, one idea per episode.
Season 1
The Shadow
A king who has never met a limit, and the wild man the gods make from clay to be his equal. Six ninety-second episodes follow the oldest story in the world from the doorway of Uruk to the walls he comes home to, and a seventh reads it through Jung.
- S1 · E1 · The doorPreview cut
The king's enemy became the only man he ever mourned.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version, Tablets I–II
- S1 · E2 · The forestScripted
Two men went into the forest to kill a thing that had never hurt them.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version, Tablets III–V
- S1 · E4 · The wormScripted
He sat with the body seven days, until a worm fell from its nose.
Epic of Gilgamesh, Standard Babylonian version, Tablets III–VIII