The Pure Necessity
2017, English. Directed by David Claerbout.
What if animals stopped behaving like humans? And music was banned from the soundtrack? A non-narrative revisiting of the Disney classic, Jungle Book. To make his own version, the artist painstakingly redrew the frames of the original by hand, one by one, to create a familiar, yet entirely new experience.
- Runtime
- 0h 50m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- English
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- Released
- 29 January 2017
- Original title
- Die reine Notwendigkeit
- Country
- Belgium
- Budget
- $1M
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The Pure Necessity isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 January 2017. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Pure Necessity?
If you liked The Pure Necessity, try Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!, Arctic Dogs, Jungle Beat: The Movie.
Who directed The Pure Necessity?
The Pure Necessity (2017) was directed by David Claerbout.