David Claerbout Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity, 2016

Die reine Notwendigkeit/The Pure Necessity is a color animated cartoon by David Claerbout, based on the classic 1967 animated adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. The 50-minute-long film follows the tradition of the frame-by-frame animation, re-creating the historical characters with the most faithful precision. However, the result is a lifeless animation - a contradiction in terms - which stands in raw contrast to the lively and rhythmical original. Now devoid of narrative, the animals move amidst the jungle as if the story were of their own making.