Short film
The Level Crossing-keeper
2011 · 12 min
A quiet, melancholic fable that lingers on solitude and small acts of defiance, with a gentle, hand-drawn stillness.
- Directed by
- Hugo Frassetto
- Genres
- Animation
- Overview
- Level crossing-keeper on an abandoned road, an old lady lives alone with her cow. She fills her loneliness by the tenderness she feels for her pretty cow and she escapes by playing the violin. Until one day she decides to stop the trains...
- How it feels
- Melancholic, eerie, warm and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Isolation, loneliness, grief, freedom
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Hugo Frassetto
- Genres
- Animation