Two minutes. That is the whole thing, and it still lands harder than most twelve-episode seasons. PIHOTEK comes from Yasunaga Ogita, a man who actually walks the Arctic alone, and Nana Inoue, whose picture book art gets put into motion here rather than redrawn into something slicker. The result is quiet where you expect grandeur, and it keeps moving anyway, no establishing shots, no breathing room, just the pull forward that anyone who has read Ogita's account of the ice recognizes. It is the rare adaptation that trusts its source enough to stay short. Watch it twice back to back. The second pass is when the wind gets you.

A picture book by Arctic adventurer Yasunaga Ogita, with illustrations by Nana Inoue, becomes a short animated adventure that runs about two minutes. Drawing on his Inuit friendships and two decades of mostly solitary expeditions, Ogita offers a poetic walk across the Arctic. He watches animals in the wild, drifts off to sleep feeling at one with nature through the wind, and sets out walking again when a fresh, energetic dawn breaks.