Lunchtime cinema
Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein
We have started viewing short films while we eat lunch instead of the mindless violence of Half Life 2 deathmatch. Today’s viewing was the 11 minute Hedgehog in the Fog by Yuri Norstein from 1975. We are all Miyazaki fans in the office and he has said that Hedgehog in the Fog is one of his favorite films which lead me to dig it out. I managed to track it down on a Masters of Russian animation DVD.
If you get a chance to watch it, it is beautifully animated and the fog was made using paper and bringing it closer and closer to the camera lens frame by frame.
You can watch it on vimeo
Yuriy Norshteyn – Hedgehog in the Fog from S☀NDAY on Vimeo.

