2025-12-14

Two beautiful, spiritual animations by Michaël Dudok de Wit

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monk_and_the_Fish
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_and_Daughter_(film)

Came across him as the only foreigner to direct a Studio Ghibli production (movies/The Red Turtle) and as someone personally requested by Miyazaki:

The film originated in 2008 when Wild Bunch co-founder Vincent Maraval visited the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. Maraval met Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki who showed him Father and Daughter (2000), an animated short film written and directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit. Miyazaki told Maraval that if the studio was to ever produce a film with a foreign animator Dudok de Wit would be the one, and asked Miraval to locate him. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Turtle