Anima

Anima is the third studio album by English musician Thom Yorke, released on 27 June 2019 through XL Recordings. It was produced by Yorke's longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich. Anima comprises electronic music developed through live performances and studio work, with themes of anxiety and dystopia. It was accompanied by a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson released on Netflix and in select IMAX theatres. A music video was also released for "Last I Heard (...He Was Circling the Drain)".

Anima began with a concept from Yorke about workers whose "bodies do not work anymore" and are being "pushed by an invisible force." The team wanted the first sequence to be "oppressive and hyper-precise, so it feels like a machine," influenced by dystopian stories such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Metropolis and the physical comedy of Charlie Chaplin. For the "Traffic" sequence, the team created a platform inclined at a 34-degree angle and placed the camera at the same angle, erasing the slope.

A review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the Anima film, holds an approval rating of 100% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 8.05/10. It was nominated for Best Music Film at the 2020 Grammy Awards.

Detail information:

Link film: https://www.netflix.com/title/81110498

Initial release: June 27, 2019

Running time: 15 minutes