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How smallpox killed more than 23,000 soldiers between 1870 and 1871



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Katerina Athanasopoulou has tracked Argonauts through outer space, turned a gasworks plant into an infanticidal mother, and even shaped a love story between a merman and a woman trapped in a twisted fairytale.


In her latest work the London-based animation artist more or less stays in our world. She wrote and directed a short film called Rupture, a throwback to 1871, when smallpox ravaged Europe.



The film is part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's new art initiative, The Art of Saving a Life , which commissioned more than 30 artists to explore the importance of vaccines in their medium of choice. Read more...


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