The Dead by Billy Collins, animated by Juan Delcan

A companion to Forgetfulness from the same series of animated Billy Collins poems, and a quieter one. Collins imagines the dead watching over the living, and the animation comes from Juan Delcan's studio, Spontaneous. Watch the two Collins films together to see how different animators can pull a single poet in different directions: one plays up the wit, the other the tenderness underneath it. The copy online is the producers' own upload.