Bydlo (film)

Bydlo
Directed byPatrick Bouchard
Written byCynthia Tremblay
Produced byJulie Roy
CinematographyPierre Mignot
Edited byAlain Baril
Stéphane Lafleur
Music byRobert Marcel Lepage
Production
company
Release date
  • June 5, 2012 (2012-06-05) (Annecy)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryCanada

Bydlo is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Patrick Bouchard and released in 2012.[1] Inspired by the fourth movement of Modest Mussorgsky's classical composition Pictures at an Exhibition,[2] the stop-motion animated film depicts a group of men who are plowing a field with an ox, but overwork both themselves and the animal virtually to the point of death.[3]

The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2012.

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2012,[4] and won the Prix Jutra for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards.[5] It was an Annie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards,[6] and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.[7]

  1. ^ "I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Bydlo'". Vice, April 16, 2013.
  2. ^ "Bydlo : La bête humaine". Voir, July 19, 2012.
  3. ^ "Maximize your time at TIFF by taking advantage of the Short Cuts program". National Post, September 8, 2012.
  4. ^ "Rebelle, Goon, Cosmopolis among Canada's Top Ten: Honoured film titles will be shown at Lightbox from Jan. 4 to 13". Toronto Star, December 5, 2012.
  5. ^ "Jutra Awards soiree fails to elicit much drama; Rebelle the big winner while Michel Cote takes home lifetime achievement award". Montreal Gazette, March 18, 2013.
  6. ^ "Guru Studios and NFB get Annie Award nominations". Playback, December 4, 2012.
  7. ^ "Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees". Maclean's, January 15, 2013.