Dandelion’s Odyssey
Yes, you read that right: this is an animated film without words about dandelion seeds traversing the cosmos in search of a new home.
Biblical scholars and theologians use “antediluvian” to describe the world of Genesis between the fall from Eden and the flood. Literally meaning “before the flood,” the word packs grand meta-narratives of historical and cosmological significance: humans fumbled the chance to live in paradise for good and brought down our world with it. Disaster awaits, monsters lurk. The beauty of the original creation still radiates brightly in the meantime. This is the world that Momoko Seto’s Dandelion’s Odyssey drops into. Four dandelion achenes — named Dendelion, Baraban, Léonto, and Taraxa in the marketing notes — survive the end of our paradise and toil through space, evade danger of both seasonal and lifeform varieties, before eventually rekindling their species on another planet. Yes, you read that right: this is an animated film without words about dandelion seeds traversing the cosmos in search of a new home.
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