The ErlKing (2003)

Release Date: 2003-01-16
Runtime: 0h 6min
Production Company: ONF | NFB
Production Country: Canada, United States of America
Director: Ben Zelkowicz

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.