'PIG' watch society collapse in this award-winning animation

Society collapses as a group of animals exploit a sleeping pig by connecting a power grid to its snout. Watch as they deplete their resources and keep lookin’ cute while they do it!

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***14 awards and 87 festival selections***

CREDITS:
Director: Jorn Leeuwerink
Producer: Tünde Vollenbroek
Story consultant: Sam Peeters
Story, storyboard, design, animation: Jorn Leeuwerink
Backgrounds: Janneke Ipenburg
Editing: Jorn Leeuwerink, Dario van Vree
Music: Job Chajes, Bram Meindersma
Musicians: Job Chajes (alto saxophone), Adeline Salles (flute), Gijs Levelt (trumpet), Birgit Strahl (bassoon), Frans Cornelissen (tuba and trombone), Arjan Jongsma (vibraphone), Frank Jonas (guitar), Felix Hildenbrand (double bass)
Sound design: Bram Meindersma
Re-recording mixer: Jaim Sahuleka (FeverFilm)
Coloring: Mackenzie Fincham, Ming Stotijn
Trailer editing: Diede van Vree
DCP export: Roloff de Jeu
Festival distribution: Ursula van den Heuvel (Kaboom Distribution)
Sales: Sydney Neter (SND Films)

[chivacetana]

The birds at the fan is perfect analogy of how people love to simulate things they can just do naturally.

[DæmonV]

The cop dog taping a picture of the fat pig overtop the screen showing the emaciated/used up pig was extraordinarily poignant. Absolute brilliance on display here.

[MMUK]

any other electrically minded people utterly horrified at the amount of load on that one plug? It's like a students bedroom

[williehornung]

i like how most of the characters presumably do not make it in the end; it made me realize how conditioned (of perhaps naturally inclined) we are to stories where “everything is okay” in the end, and how maybe that insulates us from the reality that bad things do happen, consequences are real, and things are not going to be okay.

[arekrekas]

moral of the story: remember to support the most important parts of your infrastructure, especially if they happen to be living beings

[nicolian]

I find it’s cool how everyone kinda seems to have gotten something different out of it. I noticed how no one actually cared about the pig, just what the pig could do for them. The society crumbled because of what it was morally built on. Everyone for themselves, except the pig who was for everyone. And in the end, they didn’t learn from their mistakes.

That’s what I got out of it at least. An example of what not to do.

[disguisedskeleton]

The fact that mosquitos are sapient enough to have dance clubs carries the distinct possibility that the ants that the anteater bought were also very much sapient and trapped in a glass bubble until the vacuum cleaner of death came along.

[neatlek]

Is no one going to talk about how they force-fed the pig and almost sacrificed one of the animals just for the sake of generating more energy? That was RUTHLESS...

[jamestown]

They had plenty of warning that Pig was running out, yet they chose to ignore it instead of moving to another resource gradually or making sure to feed pig regularly.

[loigwang]

I was expecting a scene where the pig wakes up

[Mr-_T]

Moral of the story: don't build an entire city in scaffolding

[mopsydizzle]

When the lights go out and the water stops working, we will all remember that we are animals within ten days tops.

[turbophysics]

If they hadn’t shared the pig they would all be fine. Sharing is bad.

[emperorgeorgethefirst]

I like how it starts from necessities and jumps to unnecessary things. the cat rides a wasteful bike just to go exercise somewhere which is ironic.

[Potates]

The ending reminds me of the whole infinite growth vs finite resources debate and how the infinite growth side believes that they'll always be able to outrun the consequences by finding more resources elsewhere.

[saiynoq]

7:43 the cat with the heating blanket at the end is amazing everything is burning but he doesn’t understand any other way to get warm And that is the catalyst.

[Mahawww]

Pig Deflation should truly be our highest concern asa society.

But on a serious note, I'm glad the animation didn't end with them coming together and saving the pig or something like that. Cause this shows that unless we change something fundamentally with how we use our resources we'll just keep doing the same thing again and again with disastrous consequences.

[Vilified_Vagabond]

I’m already watching society collapse I don’t need a beautiful well animated allegory with charming animal characters and clever mockery of our society. But I definitely enjoyed it

[mineboom]

That was morbidly funny. I didn't expect "society collapsing" to be so literal at the end there.

[attibar]

On seeing the thumbnail before watching I thought the pig would've represented greedy people stealing from the poor like I've seen so many other animations do. I'm so glad this took a different and creative approach. My best guess that the moral here is:

1.) We only have finite resources, treat them well
2.) Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Whole thing would've been prevented if they made several backup sources too.