FILM
Sarah Downes
AnimateTV 1993
1993
Duration: 6'51"
Sylvia Plath’s poem Winter Trees is translated line by line into a personalised visual language.
Credits
Director Sarah Downes
Narrator Gina McKee
Performer Sharon Quigley
Lighting Camera Ken Dodds
Animator Sarah Downes
Music Louise Forshaw
Synopsis
Sylvia Plath’s poem Winter Trees is translated line by line into a personalised visual language. The central anthropomorphism of the poem is illustrated in dense animation. A sense of unease is evoked: the spirit of rebirth is contrasted with the pervasive air of uncertainty as the tree succeeds where women sometimes fail, in the unceasing regeneration of nature.
Full credits
Director Sarah Downes
Based upon Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath, copyright Ted Hughes, 1971
Performer Sharon Quigley
Narrator Gina McKee
Lighting Camera Ken Dodds
Animator Sarah Downes
Music Louise Forshaw
Sound Designer Lei Cox
Additional financial support CAL