One person, 365 days, 8760 drawings. Wonder is not a story you watch, it's a meditation you endure, one frame at a time, each one a small rebellion against the idea that animation needs to be efficient or pretty. The director's hand is in every single image, which means you're watching commitment at the scale of obsession. Most animated films disappear once they're finished. This one refuses to stop existing the moment you look away from it.
Over the course of a full year, a director hand-draws the pictures for an animated film every single day, producing 8,760 drawings in total. Each one differs from the others in shape and color. The result is an abstract film built entirely by hand, a deliberately analog project from a creator of abstract animation working in the digital age. It suits viewers drawn to experimental, non-narrative animation.
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