When the catastrophic king Gilgamesh meets the grass-fed Enkidu, things don't go according to the clay tablets. A glumly slapstick take on the world's oldest tale, featuring doom, despair, deception, and sheep.

The Epic of Enkidu (2025) is a 9½-minute, hand-drawn riff on cuneiform, the animal kingdom, and good intentions. Made using 4,000-year-old source material and a 15-year-old Cintiq, this animated short from director Mike A. Smith is out to splash film screens with cartoon hubris, mortality, monsters, and questions about what might have been lost in those fragments of clay.

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