Crac

Crac follows a wooden rocking chair from the tree it came from through its life with a Quebec family. Frédéric Back uses the chair to show rural memory, family change, industrialization, and loss over roughly 15 minutes.

Yes, Crac won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the 1981 Oscar year. Back later won another animated short Oscar for The Man Who Planted Trees.

Crac was written, directed, and animated by Frédéric Back, the Canadian animator associated with Radio-Canada. Normand Roger composed the music, which helps carry the film's wordless folk-memory style.

Crac is one of the best-known Canadian animated shorts from the early 1980s and is closely tied to Quebec cultural memory. Its Oscar win gave international visibility to Back's hand-drawn, ecological, and humanist animation style.