8.0 / 10
(2 votes)
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.
Canada,
United States of America
Animation,
Horror
6 minutes
2003
Ben Zelkowicz
ONF | NFB,
CalArts
1989
0.0
2024
0.0
2023
0.0
2014
5.1
2006
5.8
2022
10.0
1991
6.5
2023
0.0
2012
6.0
2023
0.0
1978
0.0
2021
0.0
2010
0.0
1990
7.5
1993
7.8
1995
7.5
2019
0.0
2017
6.0
2020
0.0
2017
10.0