Crouching Ox, Crowing Rooster

(2005, 5 min 25 sec, Flash/Animate)

An animated cartoon for the World Society for the Protection of Animals’ World Farm Watch campaign. It tells the story of a grumpy old ox (played by Andrew Sachs) who feels the onset of an earthquake and saves dozens of people by lying down on the main road and blocking it. It is based on a real incident that happened in rural China in the 1970s.

FILM CREDITS

Voices: Andrew Sachs, Miranda Richardson, Graham Norton, Robin Ince and Harry Bolt
Animation by Fumio Obata, Sumito Sakakibara and Gaku Kinoshita
Co-written and directed by Martin Pickles
Researched, co-written and produced by Adela Pickles

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS

Zanzibar, East Africa, 2006
Animafest Zagreb, Croatia, 2006
Tisza Mozi, Hungary, 2006
Offord Film Festival, Cambridgeshire, UK, 2006
Animateka, Slovenia, 2006