The Monk and the Fish

The Monk and the Fish (French: Le Moine et le poisson) is a 1994 animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit at the studio Folimage.[2]

The Monk and the Fish
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Directed byMichaël Dudok de Wit
Produced byPatrick Eveno
Jacques-Remy Girerd
Written byMichaël Dudok de Wit
Music bySerge Besset
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
6 minutes 20 seconds
CountryFrance [1]
LanguageNo dialogue

Plot

Standing next to a water reservoir in a monastery enclave, a monk sees a fish and goes to get his net to catch it. The fish eludes him and the monk gets rather agitated as he tries increasingly extreme ways of catching the fish. He gets into the pond himself, and enlists the help of other monks; he tries candles, and a bow and arrow to no avail. The more the fish manages to evade him, the more obsessed the monk gets. He follows the fish out of the pond into a canal, through different landscapes and out of the confines of the monastery. Eventually the chase gets less frantic and the monk and the fish move in harmony. They float through a door into the open space and drift off into the sky together.[3]

Production

The film was made using a Traditional animation technique; Nowadays, Hand-drawn animation is often assisted by computers with digital ink and paint or an graphics tablet, but this has been made in the traditional way using brush, Indian ink, and watercolour.

The specially created music score, by Serge Besset, is based on La Follia by Arcangelo Corelli.[4]

Reception

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards[5][6] and Best Short Animated Film at the 48th British Academy Film Awards. It was also one of seven short subjects shown in French cinemas and released on VHS[7] as part of the package film Le Petit Cirque et autres contes.[8] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.[9]

References
  1. MUBI
  2. Michael Dudok de Wit-ACME Filmworks
  3. Internet Archive
  4. The Oxonian Review » A Beautiful Language
  5. Short Film Winners: 1995 Oscars
  6. 1995|Oscars.org
  7. Tom Sweep : Le moine et le poisson = The monk and the fish ; Father and daughter / by Michael Dudok de Wit.
  8. "Brochure Petit Cirque" (PDF) (Press release) (in French). Folimage. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
  9. The Animation Show Of Shows - The Monk and The Fish-YouTube
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