The organization putting stunning animation to verse, Motionpoems, has released its latest project: On Lockdown, directed by Calum Macdiarmid and produced by Roxanne Artesona, in partnership with Durable Goods. Macdiarmid captured the loneliness of lockdown with the drive to do more in the wake of George Floyd’s death using stark animation inspired by realist painters such as Edward Hopper.
The short takes viewers through the negative space of lockdown over the course of a day, following introspective faceless citizens who mirror the somber poem of the same name, by poet and Motionpoems founder Todd Boss.