Your cat runs into a haunted building. Physics takes the day off. Typical Tuesday in the Matrix.
While looking for her cat, a young woman and some kids find an abandoned building where strange things happen and the rules of physics don't always apply. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.
Direction
Koji Morimoto's fluid, dreamlike pacing lets dread creep in slow.
Cinematography
That gravity-defying rain scene? Still haunts my brain.
Sound
The audio design makes glitch spaces feel physically wrong.
Director
Koji Morimoto
Hedy Burress
Yoko (voice)
Tress MacNeille
Housewife / Kenny (voice)
Kath Soucie
Pudgy / Masa / Sara (voice)
Pamela Adlon
Manabu (voice)
Tara Strong
Misha (voice)
Jill Talley
Townspeople, Policemen, and Exterminators (voice)
Jack Fletcher
Townspeople, Policemen, and Exterminators (voice)
Julia Fletcher
Townspeople, Policemen, and Exterminators (voice)
Dwight Schultz
Townspeople, Policemen, and Exterminators (voice)
Tom Kenny
Townspeople, Policemen, and Exterminators (voice)
Matt McKenzie
Agent (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Koji Morimoto also directed 'Magnetic Rose' in Memories (1995), another reality-bending nightmare that clearly influenced this aesthetic.
The kids treat the glitch space like a playground while adults see contamination — a microcosm of how the Matrix films frame humanity's relationship with artificial worlds.
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