Guillermo del Toro Onboard Jovanka Vuckovic's 'The Captured Bird'
It was revealed today that Guillermo del Toro will act as executive producer on former Rue Morgue magazine Editor-In-Chief Jovanka Vuckovic's short film, The Captured Bird. Read on to find out why this seems to be the perfect project for del Toro to be a part of.
From the films' official website:
The Captured Bird is a darkly poetic fable that begins with a little girl drawing figures of people with chalk on the cement of a playground. She takes notice of an unusual crack in the pavement that is seeping a mysterious black fluid, which she follows to an ominous building. Inside, she encounters several bizarre phenomena, including walls that bleed black and tentacles that emerge from the ceiling to touch her. She then witnesses the birth of five terrifying supernatural beings that threaten the existence of her world.
Vuckovic will write and direct. She writes in her blog, 'The Captured Bird is a pretty ambitious short film that I wrote about a year ago, just before I got pregnant. It’s a dark fable about a little girl who has to face her own very literal demons after taking a wrong turn. I wanted to make something that combined my love of monsters with the poetry of the fairy tale aesthetic. To that end, I drew from a variety of influences – including Lovecraft and The Brothers Grimm – to craft a nightmarish vision of my own'.
Check out the official site of The Captured Bird at http://www.thecapturedbird.com/ for more on the project and some deeply personal blog entries from Vuckovic.
Check out some concept art below.
