The Thief and the Cobbler

I'm in love with this film by Richard Williams, and I don't know where even to begin.

1. The aesthetics are just my aesthetics. If you know me, you know. It was a very blissful aesthetic journey.
2. This movie was inspired by Nasruddin, a Sufi comedic mullah.
3. The main characters in the movie are mute. And I have a thing for mute characters.
4. Last but not least, the film was in and out of production for nearly three decades because of Richard's overly ambitious and complex vision. It's both heartbreaking and beautiful how someone can spend their whole life working on and off several smaller projects, all to accomplish one big vision (and he never got even to finish it). Some of the scenes in the movie, which lasted only 20 seconds, took months to complete. Then they were redone all over again because some minor detail wasn't right.

This movie is just a masterpiece. I have a dream of being in nature, in a house with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out at some mountains, and watching this movie during sunset (maybe even on LSD would be even better).

Richard Williams himself never finished the movie. There are many versions of it. The one below is redone to match his originals as much as possible. My favorite parts are 18:10, and the Zigzag entrance song

can spend their whole life weaving in and out of several smaller projects,