You can read the story in Spanish here!
“A Chinese emperor, raised in isolation with only a renowned artist’s paintings to serve as an indication of the outside world, sends for the artist in question in order to punish him when he discovers that reality doesn’t come close to matching the beauty of his art, in Laloux’s conventionally animated but thought-provokingly compelling short film.” —Iain Stott
Subtle, fragile, beautiful, brilliant. This kind of film gives me peace.
There is the film itself as art and your reaction to it. There is the reaction of the Emporer to Wang-fo’s art in the face of a reality that doesn’t hold up in comparison. There is the artist’s ability to become so immersed in his art that he is literally able to slip loose of this world.
More than any one of these things, it’s about art and its relationship to humanity. Yet inasmuch as it is about these things it offers no clear answers. Like the greatest questions in life, its answer lies in that peaceful meditation without the need for a firm grasp. For the film, being is enough.
The video is in French with Spanish subtitles..
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