Love might be universal but, as this brief animation shows, it’s not always easily translatable. Made in association with the CBC podcast Love Me, the Canadian director Andrew Norton’s short film explores 13 distinctive words from across the globe that describe the highs, lows and everything-in-betweens of romantic love.
‘Grief bacon’ and other untranslatable words for the highs and lows of love
Director: Andrew Norton
Producers: Cristal Duhaime, Mira Burt-Wintonick
Illustrator: Drew Shannon
7 July 2016
videoHistory of technology
The Americas’ oldest book is an intricate work of Maya astronomy
9 minutes
videoLove and friendship
What does it mean to say goodbye to a creature that doesn’t know you’re leaving?
13 minutes
videoArt
A young Rockefeller collects art on a fateful journey to New Guinea
7 minutes
videoAnthropology
Margaret Mead explains why the family was entering a brave new world in this 1959 film
29 minutes
videoFamily life
A mother and child bond in an unusual prison visitation space in this poignant portrait
11 minutes
videoArchaeology
At a prehistoric pigment mine, researchers glimpse our earliest moments in the Americas
25 minutes
videoHuman rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
10 minutes
videoLanguage and linguistics
Do button-pushing dogs have something new to say about language?
9 minutes
videoLove and friendship
Never marry a man you love too much, and other views on romance in Sierra Leone
5 minutes