A haunting animation of Italo Calvino’s tale of would-be lovers stranded on the moon

As we ’re see more about thestrange , volatile birth of Earth ’s moon , let ’s return to a more fanciful version of lunar story . This short moving picture animates Italo Calvino ’s short story “ The Distance of the Moon ” about a love quad involving two men , a woman , and the Sun Myung Moon .

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The story , from the 1965 collection Cosmicomics , is set during a prison term when the moon was much closer to the Earth , so stuffy that Calvino ’s not - quite - human case could gain it with a run . “ The Distance of the Moon ” was one of the divine guidance behind Enrico Casarosa ’s gorgeous Pixar shortLa Luna . Here , Israeli children ’s book generator and illustratorShulamit Serafybrings to aliveness the story of unreciprocated sexual love and a widen compass .