| Bydlo | |
| Director: | Patrick Bouchard |
| Producer: | Julie Roy |
| Music: | Robert Marcel Lepage |
| Cinematography: | Pierre Mignot |
| Editing: | Alain Baril Stéphane Lafleur |
| Studio: | National Film Board of Canada |
| Runtime: | 9 minutes |
| Country: | Canada |
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]