A ship sets sail on an epic voyage through malignant natural and supernatural elements from which one man alone survives. An adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner illustrated by19th Century wood engravings which are animated by scratching directly into the surface of color filmstock. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with its message of ecological redemption has a curiously contemporary resonance, but it is at the level of the mythic that the poem has lasting relevance; for this epic tale of extraordinary events simply mirrors the struggle that each human being faces on their own in his or her life. -VDB
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Ancient Mariner Productions
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- ocean
- iceberg
- sailing ship
- scratch film
- albatross
- short film
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Top Cast
Julian Maynard Smith as Face of the Mainlander
Top Crew
Paul Bush · Director, Writer
Geoffrey Bush · Composer
Colin Rose · Executive Producer
Maggie Ellis · Executive Producer
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