The Struggle

A metaphor about the passage of time and how an artist can pour everything into his most personal work—all his passion, all his blood, and effort. And yet, even as time passes and he's close to death, he manages to finish his work. The animation is incredible, as always.

And this is obviously a great short that deserves to be better known.

83/100

A metaphor about the passage of time and how an artist can pour everything into his most personal work—all his passion, all his blood, and effort. And yet, even as time passes and he's close to death, he manages to finish his work. The animation is incredible, as always.

And this is obviously a great short that deserves to be better known.

83/100

Special Feature on The Son of the White Mare Blu-Ray:

Bittersweet allegorical short about Jankovic’s animation career. RIP to a legend. Definitely needed more recognition in his lifetime.

Special Feature on The Son of the White Mare Blu-Ray:

Bittersweet allegorical short about Jankovic’s animation career. RIP to a legend. Definitely needed more recognition in his lifetime.

Your art shapes you just as much as you shape it and it takes as much out of you as you put into it. This contradiction of creation is presented fantastically here as the artist chisels away at perfection and progress, the task wearing away at himself bit by bit for time is a limited resource and effort is draining even when it is effort at something you love. The varying line weight throughout the film exemplifies this shift of difficulty and weariness, contradicting one another as the task only gets easier for the artist to perfectas time goes on and they get more skilled but they themselves are unable to keep up. The roughness and the clarity of both subjects shift and swap as the film goes on, leaving us with a ideal form and raw material.

Your art shapes you just as much as you shape it and it takes as much out of you as you put into it. This contradiction of creation is presented fantastically here as the artist chisels away at perfection and progress, the task wearing away at himself bit by bit for time is a limited resource and effort is draining even when it is effort at something you love. The varying line weight throughout the film exemplifies this shift of difficulty and weariness, contradicting one another as the task only gets easier for the artist to perfectas time goes on and they get more skilled but they themselves are unable to keep up. The roughness and the clarity of both subjects shift and swap as the film goes on, leaving us with a ideal form and raw material.