My Milk Cup Cow / Beizili de xiao niu (杯子里的小牛) / Moja kravica iz skodelice za mleko
Yantong Zhu (Tokyo University of the Arts)
2014, Japan, 11'03''
A single father always tells his 4-year-old daughter Nunu that there is a tiny cow at the bottom of her milk cup. Each time Nunu finishes drinking, she eagerly checks, only to find an empty cup. Gradually, she begins to question not just the cow's existence, but also her father's words.
Oče samohranilec svoji štiriletni hčerki Nunu vedno pripoveduje, da je na dnu njene skodelice za mleko živi majhna krava. Vsakič, ko mleko popije, Nunu nestrpno preveri dno, a najde le prazno skodelico. Sčasoma začne dvomiti ne le v obstoj krave, temveč tudi v očetove besede.
Language: Chinese
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Team
Voices: Yantong Zhu, Yidong Zhu, Yuhan Wang, Ye Ye, Mengjiao Yin, Yaqian Shen
Script, edit, animation: Yantong Zhu
Coloring: Yantong Zhu, Xueqing Shao, Xinxin Liu, Onohana, Yag
Digital work assistant: Saki Muramoto, Chen Chen, Miyo Sato, Tianjun Chen
Song “Chinese Traditional Northeastern Lullaby” arranger: Jianchun Zhen, piano: Long Wu, singer: Guang Yang, music: Asuka Horiguchi, erhu: Yingzi Li Music, recording studio: Tokyo University of the Arts, Senju Campus Studio A
Sound design: Ayane Fukushima
Recording engineer: Ayane Fukushima, Yantong Zhu
Mixing studio: Aoi Studio Audio Sweetening Mixer: Sae Miyoshi (Aoi Studio)
Yantong Zhu
b. 1988, China. Co-founder & Festival Director of Feinaki Beijing Animation Week (since 2019). She studied animation and got a master's degree at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her film My Milk Cup Cow (2014) received numerous prizes worldwide, including the Grand Prix at KROK and the Young Animation Award at Stuttgart. She also served as the executive producer of the film To the Bright Side (2021), which received the Grand Prize for feature films at the New York International Children's Film Festival. She has been serving as a visiting lecturer for the Experimental Animation Course at the Communication University of China since 2020.
Find more: @yantong_zhu_animation