1.0 video http://www.nfb.ca/film/bydlo_en Patrick Bouchard National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_small/2013/Bydlo_SM.jpg 204 115 <iframe src="http://www.nfb.ca/film/bydlo_en/embed/player" width="530" height="345" ></iframe><p style="width:(( width ))px"><a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/bydlo_en/" target="_blank"><em>Bydlo</em></a> by <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/patrick-bouchard/" title="more films by Patrick Bouchard" target="_blank">Patrick Bouchard</a>, <a href="http://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">National Film Board of Canada</a></p> 530 345 An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, this animated short is a tragic vision inspired by the 4th movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, animator Patrick Bouchard brings earth to life through animated clay sculptures, creating a tactile nightmare in which man is his own slave driver.