REVIEWS
Reviews
“A charming tale, delicately and sensitively rendered.”
Karen Cooper, Film Forum, New York City“Sally Heckel's sand animation is skillful and lyrical, its patterns visually follow the flow of the song.”
Edith Zornow, Film Producer, Children's Television Workshop“Images from recognizable objects to abstractions enhance the lyrics. It is a lullaby, perhaps for children, perhaps for adults as well. The song written by Manger for his mother, a simple woman who could neither read nor write, reveals a loving memory of a mother singing to her child. This film seems made to be seen, heard and enjoyed, not analyzed or explained.”
Landers Film Reviews
Personal Comments
“What a beautiful and evocative piece! I was so impressed with the constant , fluid change in composition and how, with such a strange medium, you were able to create such visual and emotional depth.”
Peter de Seve, Artist/Designer of Characters for Animation
“The Bent Tree was completely transporting. For me it evokes the elemental emotions of those first peoples to wander northwards into Europe and Asia out of the sunlight and warmth and into the lands of winter. All the melancholy of leaving something good behind, all the terror of confronting the unknown ahead, flooded over me as I listened to that ancient (?) and complex song, mesmerized by those sinuous changing dancing images of Sally's drawings.”
John Perkins, Writer/Documentary Producer