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Rotunda
This animated film, closely based on Apeleius' moving story, provides a fascinating dialogue with the Baroque tapestries on view.
Selected Works
Still from the film, "Psyche and Eros," 1994, by Alison de Vere.
About
This animated cartoon film, closely based on Apuleius’s moving story, is widely regarded as a masterpiece. Film animator Alison de Vere, who contributed to the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine in 1967, completed the 26 minutes long film for the British Channel 4 in 1994. Screened in the Museum’s Rotunda, the film provides a fascinating dialogue with the Baroque tapestries in an adjacent gallery.