Affairs of the Art

Name: Affairs of the Art
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 2021-01-29
Duration: 16 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Menna Trussler, Brendan Charleson, Joanna Quinn, Mali Ann Rees

2021·Animation·16m

5.2

★

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

Directed by Joanna Quinn

drawing

kids

family life

interpersonal relationships

short film

Trailer

IMDB

N/A

Letterboxd

3.0 / 5

Cast

Menna Trussler

Beryl (voice)

Brendan Charleson

Ifor / Colin / Lenin / Interviewer (voice)

Joanna Quinn

Beverly (voice)

Mali Ann Rees

Mum / Edie (voice)

Crew

Joanna Quinn

Director

Olivier Calvert

Sound Designer

Joanna Quinn

Animation

Benjamin Talbott

Music

Popular Reviews

54 reviews

Rizzo

3.0★ · 01/24/26

Great art style, questionable lack of plot. Too much animal abuse but the kid with the obsession with Vladimir Lenin is so me

Doog

7.0★ · 10/16/25

An interesting short film, a kind of whimsical Harmony Korine outsider art piece. Beautiful animation, beyond odd characters who are pretty unlikable. It’s a weird ass little movie with some really fucked up animal treatment.

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