Mango Chardiet 2026

Abstract

Here Lies A Fallen Dove explores themes of grief, loneliness, Catholic guilt, and reckoning with oneself through a ten-minute stop-motion film animated at 24 frames per second. The story follows the main character, Amalthea, as she summons a god of death and falls through a portal into hell. Circumstance can shape any living thing from hopeful to desperate as quickly as one can breathe, and Amalthea is no exception. She finds herself alone in a desolate cabin deep in the woods, with the poorly buried body of her sweetheart just outside. Amalthea watches as the earth refuses to take the body. Consumed by grief and desperation, she summons the god of death from below, beginning her journey into the abyss. Will she find what she is looking for?