'' The Monk and the Fish '' ( ) is a 1994 animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit at the studio Folimage . It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards and Best Short Animated Film at the 48th British Academy Film Awards . It was also one of seven short subjects shown in French cinemas and released on VHS as part of the package film '' Le Petit Cirque et autres contes '' . It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows . Standing next to a water reservoir in a monastery enclave , a monk sees a fish and goes to get his net to catch it . The fish eludes him and the monk gets rather agitated as he tries increasingly extreme ways of catching the fish . He gets into the pond himself , and enlists the help of other monks ; he tries candles , and a bow and arrow to no avail . The more the fish manages to evade him , the more obsessed the monk gets . He follows the fish out of the pond into a canal , through different landscapes and out of the confines of the monastery . Eventually the chase gets less frantic and the monk and the fish move in harmony . They float through a door into the open space and drift off into the sky together . The film was made using a cel animation technique ; nowadays cel animation is often assisted by computers , but this has been made in the traditional way using brush , Indian ink , and watercolour . The specially created music score , by Serge Besset , is based on '' La Follia '' by Arcangelo Corelli .
48th British Academy Film Awards
48th British Academy Film Awards
The Monk and the Fish