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Genres: Animation, Horror
Release Date: 16/01/2003
Duration: 6 minutes
Director: Ben Zelkowicz
Production: ONF | NFB, CalArts
Country: Canada, United States of America

Overview:

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.