The ErlKing
The ErlKing

The ErlKing

8.0(2 votes)
2003
0h 6m
Animation
Horror

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.

Production

ONF | NFB, CalArts

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