Feeling From Mountain and Water Te Wei Review

Feelings of Mountains and Waters

The story is nearly an impoverished elderly scholar and a young girl who cares for him briefly in return for guqin lessons.

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Shan shui qing, Shanshui Qing, Impression de montagne et d'eau et autres histoires

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This is a brusk animated ink cartoon that was done by Chinese animator Te Wei (1915-2010).

At that place'southward no dialogue and I found the short on YouTube. Information technology invokes feelings of peace and serenity while watching it.

Here'due south a link to the backstory and significance of this animated short: Article

Cheers to fellow Letterboxd and Discord member Jord for the recommendation.

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One of the nigh beautiful "animated" films I've ever seen! It's made in the highly poetic "Shan sui" mode, traditional Chinese painting that features natural landscapes and uses brush and ink instead of paints.

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I'm literally a little lost of words. The melancholy well-nigh crumbling and the panic when immature people miss a teacher is rarely seen in the stories of the theme of "acquaintance" in traditional narratives and gives the "Landscapes" of a modern fable a significant of growing up. Tian Dan Long integrates Taoist thoughts, gives the film a philosophical colour, and supplemented by the music of the Guqin and the lofty and quiet artistic conception of Chinese mural painting reaches its extreme. It is a pity that it has also go Cathay'due south last ink-and-wash animation. This film speaks for itself without using language and at that place's naught to be said about it, except that you should all watch it. This is the kind of affair they'd show y'all in heaven, in that location'south no doubt most it.
The embodiment of a painting and song come to life.
This is extraordinarily different to Western art and requires a reconfiguration from Western audiences in order to appreciate it, for this is non an expression of plot or grapheme - but a loving expression, inspired by the natural elements, and harmonized through the cultural arts.
This is a meditation on nature and the feelings that menstruation from that abundance.
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I intended to watch something that was a little more explicitly aligned with Maoist thought, but almost nothing is easily available, and everything on YouTube is either missing subtitles or is in max 480p, And so I ended upwardly settling on something a niggling shorter, but I still enjoyed it. Loved the animation style that felt but like a painting, and the story was a beautiful little tale.

seven/10
Soulful and precise animation. Breathtakingly beautiful.
Honestly, this is and so delicate, unproblematic and mesmerizing that information technology is almost unreal.
This review may contain spoilers. I tin can handle the truth.

I would greatly recommend watching this motion picture before reading this review of it, it is simply about eighteen minutes and is gratuitous on YouTube.
A simple story of an old master and his immature apprentice. There is very picayune to be said for its narrative complication or depth of character, yet there is much to exist said for the way it imparts these things unto the audience.
The starting time thing immediately noticeable is the visual medium. This motion picture mimics the Classical Chinese shan shui style. This is highly unconventional to exist found as an animation fashion, still it is a very well respected and celebrated fine art form dating back to the fifth century. Shan shui paintings are said to be…
Watched this like l times ever looks fucking pretty equally hell.
blithe shan shui is genius
It'due south been really hard for me to be passionate near anything lately. I've just felt actually hopeless and empty most of the time, especially as it relates to my piece of work. It'south a bigger outcome for me, and I need to do some serious emotional work to claw my way out from where I am, but this film merely soothed my soul and then much. I hope I can make something ane 10th as beautiful as this is. I hope I can channel my feelings of loss and despondency into my films as finer and earnestly every bit Te Wei.