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The Monster of Nix

Director: Rosto -
Nightmare musical full of overwhelming visual and musical spectacle - with contributions by Terry Gilliam and Tom Waits - is at the same time the most fairy-like production by audio-visual artist Rosto.

An elusive monster disrupts the peaceful life in the village of Nix. Ten-year-old Willy starts a search for his grandma, whom the monster has probably abducted to the woods. Via the frightened forester and the giant swallow Virgil (the voice of Tom Waits) who wants an egg, he arrives at the Langemanne. Only children can see these forest spirits. They preserve the stories that everyone knows inside eggs.
This ‘musical’, unusually fairy-like for Rosto, is a visual and musical spectacle about the power of storytelling.

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Director
Executive producer
Script
Production Design
Sound Design
Muziek
Production company
Studio Rosto A.D
CinéTé bvba
Autour De Minuit
TV company
AVRO TV
Canal+
Distributor NL
Eye Filmmuseum
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Title: The Monster of Nix
Year: 2011
Duration : 30 minutes
Type: Short Feature
Edition: NFF 2011

Gouden Kalf nominees

Beste Korte Film (2011)
Rosto -

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