What's Old is New Again

I have just had the deepest watercolor conversation. Meet my new friend. Aleksander Petrov's 1999 animated short film "The Old Man & the Sea" has inspired me to reread the Hemingway novella on which it was based. This heartbreakingly beautiful story, mixing the ephemeral with the persevering, is impressing in literary format, but on film everything is amplified. It moves before the viewer vaguely defined as a lucid dream, striking the emotions while confusing the physical senses. This is an exception to the rule that books had better remain as books rather than cheapening their titles through multimedia. Watch it. Read it.