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The Rug

1985 · 10 min

A quiet, hand-drawn memory piece that drifts between past and present, leaving a soft ache of loss and longing.

Directed by
Maureen Selwood
Genres
Animation
Starring
Anna Manahan
Overview
A story of loss told through a daughter looking back on her mother’s life in rural Ireland who receives a package one day from the postman.

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Directed by
Maureen Selwood
Genres
Animation
Starring
Anna Manahan
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • memory
  • family
  • isolation
  • aging
Places
  • countryside
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism6
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Genres
animation
Directed by
Maureen Selwood
Starring
Anna Manahan
Runtime
10 min

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