Bydlo (film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Bydlo

| image =

| caption = Film poster

| director = Patrick Bouchard

| producer = Julie Roy

| writer = Cynthia Tremblay

| music = Robert Marcel Lepage

| cinematography = Pierre Mignot

| editing = Alain Baril
Stéphane Lafleur

| studio = National Film Board of Canada

| distributor =

| released = {{film date|2012|06|05|Annecy}}

| runtime = 9 minutes

| country = Canada

| language =

| budget =

}}

Bydlo is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Patrick Bouchard and released in 2012.[https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/avnbz4/im-short-not-stupid-presents-bydlo "I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Bydlo'"]. Vice, April 16, 2013. Inspired by the fourth movement of Modest Mussorgsky's classical composition Pictures at an Exhibition,[https://voir.ca/cinema/2012/07/19/bydlo-la-bete-humaine/ "Bydlo : La bête humaine"]. Voir, July 19, 2012. the stop-motion animated film depicts a group of men who are plowing a field with an ox, but overwork both themselves and the animal virtually to the point of death."Maximize your time at TIFF by taking advantage of the Short Cuts program". National Post, September 8, 2012.

The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2012.

The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2012,"Rebelle, Goon, Cosmopolis among Canada's Top Ten: Honoured film titles will be shown at Lightbox from Jan. 4 to 13". Toronto Star, December 5, 2012. and won the Prix Jutra for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Jutra Awards."Jutra Awards soiree fails to elicit much drama; Rebelle the big winner while Michel Cote takes home lifetime achievement award". Montreal Gazette, March 18, 2013. It was an Annie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Subject at the 40th Annie Awards,[http://playbackonline.ca/2012/12/04/guru-studios-and-nfb-get-annie-award-nominations/ "Guru Studios and NFB get Annie Award nominations"]. Playback, December 4, 2012. and a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.[https://www.macleans.ca/culture/introducing-the-canadian-screen-awards-and-their-2013-nominees/ "Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees"]. Maclean's, January 15, 2013.