The fantabulous three-minute animated thriller opens
with an exciting pursuit through a forest that ends in... not a forest. A
film about believing in an illusion...
Directed by Fons Schiedon and produced by Submarine.nl,
In A Forest is part of a very cool, ongoing initiative by the
Netherlands Film Fund, that aims to reintroduce short films back into
cinemas. Usually, we like to give you a little behind-the-scenes feature on our productions, but in this case, the behind-the-scenes is rather uninteresting, because –insert spoiler alert here – it is part of the actual film. Fons did however share with us that, "some strange and mysterious events happened during production...”
“Bram came to Berlin to work on the sound design and we both lived in some sort of twilight zone state caused by sleep deprivation as we worked towards the deadline. We recorded sounds in an actual forest in the dead of night –it was pitch dark– in a sort of method sound-recording style. Rolling in the bushes and all. We met a strange dude who played an out-of-tune trombone and looked like Jimi Hendrix. He wore a T-shirt with Hercules on it.”
“This guy provided us with some of the sounds for the beast in the film, but didn't want anything for it. Then, on our way to Amsterdam to do the sound mix, the oil reservoir in Bram's Volvo exploded. The car was a total loss, and after it was towed by the German breakdown service, we continued in a rental. The whole experience was in such stark contrast to the otherwise super smooth production process of the animation. For me, it was like a
breath of fresh air to end in total chaos. I think it gave the film just that bit of edge that it needed."
Fons Schiedon - In A Forest from Submarine Channel on Vimeo.
0 Comments