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The Pining Tree is an animation written & directed by Rosemary Dean, using images drawn by Aiko Asanuma and animated by Tetsuro Shimauchi. Independently financed and produced by Rosemary, the film employs a sketched/water-coloured series of still-drawings. The animation is extremely limited so as to focus on the minutae of 'stillness' that surrounds the central character as she lives alone in her apartment with a large tree just outside her window.
Evoking whispers of half-remembered folklore of those trapped by the dimensional borders of their surroundings, The Pining Tree narrates a haunting tale of moving over to the Other side. Interred in her solitary domicile, a woman seems fated to become one with the tree outside her apartment. It beckons her, entrances her, enraptures her. Her humming, tactile space seems pregnant, awaiting this transformation.
The score to The Pining Tree was released on the CD Filmmusic Vol.2 by Sound Punch Records in 2009.
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