Bucephalus

2002 short film about Alexander the Great and his stallion Bucephalus. This was a student film, made by painting images with acrylic on water colour paper. The music is by the Macedonian group Anastasia, and

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Bucephalus
• Alexander the Great
• Alex Vasolla
• Hosrses
• Macedonia
• Makedonia
• Arabian horse
• stallion
• animation

[WhispertheWolf]

This is an excellent film! I love it! But Bucephalus's breed and body type is misrepresented. Here he is shown as Arabian in type. He was, horse historians believe, Thessolian, a much heavier type. Bucephalus is said to be massive, with a particularly massive head, a large star on his forehead, and a "wall eye" (blue eye).

[eliskander]

@WhispertheWolf Thank you, you are right that I did depict him as an Arabian. My research showed the type of horse used in macedonia and Greece at the time to be very Arabian in type, even though the descriptions of Bucephalus were as you said, massive, big head etc. But that could describe a deviation from the ideal. So I did make him to be of larger head and bigger than most Arabians. Also the Arabian breed was around at the time, even earlier. I had to go with artistic preference in the end.

[animalfreak7]

this is one of my VERY favorite story in history, and i love the art work :D

[eliskander]

Thank you.

[marioulaki]

Good work, but I have to say that FYROM has nothing to do with the ancient macedonians. Not even the language it's similar. There is a big hole of 900 years between Alexander and slavs from FYROM. The only thing that they share it's the ground because of the extension of his great Empire. Nothing else. It's very sad for me, a big fan of Alexander, to see how greeks and people from FYROM fights to see where he belongs. He is human heritage, as he wanted to be. Respect him, please. He was a man.

[Blad771]

Interesting video!

[zelezo777]

pice of art !!!