I Lost My Body

Director: Jérémy Clapin

2019 / 81min / DCP

A sentient severed hand scuttles its way across Paris, dodging myriad obstacles en route, in search of its owner, Naouful, an orphan whose hard-luck life story is recalled in flashback fragments scattered throughout Clapin’s beautifully hand-animated (no pun intended) feature, a mixture of earnest romanticism, surreal humor, and subtly unsettling psychodrama that moves between these tones with the nimbleness of its implacable amputated protagonists. “One of the most original and creative animated features I’ve ever seen: macabre, of course—how could it be otherwise, given the premise?—but remarkably captivating and unexpectedly poetic in the process.” —Variety

Introduction by director Jérémy Clapin on Saturday, September 7th