The artist discusses his animated film, which featured in the 18th edition of the Festival. The story is the outcome of eight months’ collecting popular folklore in Ethiopia, his country of origin, which are passed on through oral tradition. As TV sets proliferate in Ethiopian households, Wube understood that this vast repertoire was threatened with extinction. Hence the idea of preserving these tales via animation, placing them inside the TV sets. He also discusses the characters in the video, two of the more common animals in Ethiopia, the donkey and the hyena, which are used as metaphors for the paradoxes of human existence, caught between nature and culture. To him, the former concerns what always remains the same, in a cyclic movement. The latter, he believes, is an unstable field, ever fragile and inconstant. He also addresses the notions of transformation – the small changes that take place in day-to-day living – and authenticity – which is linked to origin, roots, and the notion of belonging.