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An animated astronaut leaves his love—and his arm—behind on Earth

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Leaving a loved one can feel like cutting off a limb, and in Nicolas Ménard‘s lovely, otherworldly short film Somewhere, that feeling becomes literal. When an astronaut ventures to truly alien worlds, all he can think of is what he left behind.

Ménard made this short at the the Royal College of Art. The music and sound design, which add so much to the lonely mood of this piece, is by Rich Vreeland.

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