Sea Dog´s Devotion

"The effect of beauty on a person is that it strikes him dumb"

(Paul Valéry).

Anna Kalus´ Sea Dog´s Devotion strikes its viewers dumb: This silent animation film is wordless, though it is based on words, and develops its form and its theme loosely according to the macabre and subtly necrophilic poem Seemannstreue by Joachim Ringelnatz, in which the first-person narrator tells about burying his deceased bride Alwine in the cold ground, then digging her up, and so on.

Until her flesh was completely
Transformed and runny.
Out. In. Out. I dug for many weeks.
And then thought, Oh, how it reeks.
And...