In an impressionistic style, Anima tells the story of a troupe of performers on tour, each grappling with their own memories.

On the road or at the hotel, alone or in groups, they illustrate and comment—through their performance—on the words of anthropologist Desmond Morris, taken from an interview given to the BBC.

The clash between the real and the virtual reflects other tensions: those between body and soul, the biological and the technological, the immediate and the memory, the real and the dream.

Morris’s social analyses thus lie at the heart of themes such as introspection, interpersonal relationships, and uprootedness, highlighting the sense of alienation that results from the growing disembodiment of our human connections.

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