Virginia Woolf’s short story “The Mark on the Wall,” published in 1917, was one of the first two stories printed and published by Virginia and her husband Leonard when they started the Hogarth Press. A new experimental short film, now available online, brings her first published story to life.

Anderson Wright’s evocative and experimental short film is described as capturing the essence of Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness narrative, in which a seemingly insignificant mark on the wall triggers the exploration of memory, identity, and the passage of time.

I watched it and found it hauntingly beautiful, with the final words of the film echoing Woolf’s own, minus her words about war.

If you have three minutes and forty-four seconds at your disposal, you can watch it, too.