Pitur's Animation Festival #0004

I'm not sure why this is turning into a string g of Academy Award nominees, as I'm not doing it on purpose, but so be it... :)

Next up is the utterly charming The Monk and the Fish by Michael Dudok de Wit.

The film draws (hah) its inspiration from a beautiful series of Zen poems and pictures called the Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures and transforms it into a delightful and funny tale of a monk desperately trying to catch a fish.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls

Every frame in this film was hand painted with ink and watercolour, which took around 7 months to complete.

A nice interview with the filmmaker and much more insight into the film can be found here:

http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/a-beautiful-language/

In the meantime, hope you enjoy the film!