Winter Days
A film adaptation of one of the collaborative linked poems from the 1684 collection by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. True to the original work's spirit of collaboration, the animation brings together 35 different animators-each contributing visuals for one of the 36 stanzas. Alongside Japanese artists, director Kawamoto enlisted renowned animators from around the world. Each animator provided at least 30 seconds of footage to interpret their assigned stanza, with most sequences lasting under a minute-except for Yuriy Norshteyn's, which runs close to two minutes.
