This film explores the distant relationship between an elderly amateur musician, the woman who lives in the apartment above him, and the leaky bathtub that is bothering them both.
Cinematography
Paint-on-glass technique looks like living watercolor bleeding into memory.
Direction
Tilby turns plumbing problems into profound emotional architecture.
Director
Wendy Tilby
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tilby painted each frame on glass with oil paints, then wiped and repainted—no paper, no cels, just pure obsessive craftsmanship.
This won the Silver Bear at Berlin and was nominated for an Oscar, yet remains criminally underseen outside animation circles.
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