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"Extraordinary storytelling and artistry.... Ben Zelkowicz's animated adaptation... captures the poem's eerie sense of horror and sadness with truly dazzling skill. While the technique is not new, [his] imagery flows like silky liquid, with images emerging, morphing, and retreating with seemingly effortless ease. The pictures, like woodcuts, are high contrast, and yet Zelkowicz captures the nuances of emotion on the faces of his characters, and by the end, the sense of sorrow hits hard.... The film is a knock out."RES Magazine
Set to the famous Schubert leider , this lovely short looks like a woodcut come to life, but it's actually animated out of sand! The lament of a father fearing for the life of his feverish son packs tremendous mortal urgency to it—as if we're seeing everything outside the frame of a Breugel canvas, all the gloomy reality behind the seasonal festivals. Seattle Weekly
"Except for a few segments in which he incorporates colored sand for dramatic effect, Zelkowicz has chosen to work with only one hue, but this limited palette — which produces a kind of sepia effect — is very effective in capturing the nocturnal, spooky milieu of the poem and song.... A very successful effort." Animation World Network
"Hauntingly beautiful..."New York Film Festival Guide
"A must see" New Orleans Film Festival Guide
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