When such an unusual and well-drawn film is nominated for an Oscar, you wonder where it came from. That was the case with 2015’s ‘The Dam Keeper’, an allegorical animation dreamt up by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi. Despite its San Francisco postcode, their Tonko House animation studio prioritises hand-crafted productions over technology; Monocle paid a visit to the chalkboard.
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- Carlos Chavarria