Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics

5/6/2026

Using an almost doll-like style of stop-motion, this takes the perspective of a young native girl and introduces her to the perils of the seven deadly sins and the joys of those counter-balancing teachings like truth, honesty and humbleness. Like so much in real life, her initiation into her culture starts with a degree of indoctrination designed to induce a sense of fear, or at least a sense of obedience to a society that uses self-deprecation as a currency of choice. To reinforce that, this innocent youngter believes she is tainted by evil and so strives to correct that as she is exposed to greed, avarice, gluttony and then there's lust. That was the one that interested me more as it ought to have been harder to manifest through the eyes of this infant. Curiously, this chooses to represe