The Cat Piano

This is another video recommended by a friend who knows too well that I like such stuff... "The Cat Piano" (2009) is a story about cats, whose city is terrorized by a human, who kidnaps cats to build his cat piano, a musical instrument made up of cats arranged according to the tone of their voice and by the press of the keys a mechanism would pierce into their tails making the one with the desired note cry out... The interesting thing is that such thing indeed existed, see the illustration below (and wikipedia for further details). As far as I can gather from the descriptions, the cats' tails were only stretched, not pierced, but still the idea is bizarre... and deserves to be filmed. Naturally, the cats in this short join their forces under the lead of the narrator, who wants to rescue his sweetheart... The film is made by The People's Republic of Animation, a group of young animators, whose work testifies that if you are determined enough to experiment with and pursue what you like to do, you can come up with such excellent work as the one I now post here.