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Under The Apple Tree
Director:
Erik van Schaaik
Country:
Netherlands
year: 2015
Running Time:
18:25
Technique:
Stop-motion (animated objects, puppets, clay animation, etc.)
Category:
Short film [10 to 45 min]
Producer:
Anita van Dalen
Distributor:
Anita van Dalen
The program:
Synopsis
A deceased farmer is buried by his hated brother, the vicar. Worms inhabit the corpse, discovering they’ve full control over it. The dead farmer awakens...
Director's BIO
Writer/director Erik van Schaaik has been fascinated by horror stories from an early age. His love of thunderstorms, fluttering curtains and long dark corridors has brought him to the south of Belgium, where he lived in a castle and started writing ‘Under The Apple Tree’. In the vein of Poe, Wilde and Dahl, it’s an amusing little horror fable that satirically sketches the similarities between man and worm, resulting in the unification of the two: the walking dead.
Apple Tree is a movie full of contradictions: Bizarre but touching. Story about animals but human drama. Staged as a feature film but dialogue in rhyme. It’s all about the inner world, literally and figuratively.Contacts
info@erikvanschaaik.com
http://www.erikvanschaaik.com
