The Danish Poet

I thought in light of my fascination with this year's nominees it's good to look at last year's winner of the 2007 Best Animated Short Film Oscar - The Danish Poet. It's such a pretty story and the animation is so charming...and i just love the narrator's voice.

The Danish Poet Part One

The Danish Poet Part Two



Is it possible to trace the chain of events that led to our own birth? Is our existence just coincidence? Do little things matter?

In The Danish Poet the narrator ponders these question as we embark on a holiday to Norway with Kaspar, a poet whose creative well has run dry. As the story of Kaspar's quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, angry dogs, cows that slip form barn planks, careless postmen, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.