A vain and arrogant youth dares to enter Baba Yaga’s living house of bones. What emerges will forever fill our nights with terror.
Short Synopsis
Who dares to disturb the devil’s grandmother and enter her slumbering house of bones? Who is foolish enough to betray this immortal nature-spirit? Baba Yaga holds the answers you need, but are they the answers you seek? Tread carefully, for your ambitious schemes could come back to haunt you…
Long Synopsis
Who dares to disturb the devil’s grandmother and enter her slumbering house of bones? Who is foolish enough to betray this immortal nature-spirit, whose iron teeth gnash with insatiable hunger? Baba Yaga surely holds the answers you need, but are they the answers you seek? Tread lightly, all those who pass this way, for your ambitious schemes could come back to haunt you…
In the deep forests of 15th-century Eastern Europe, a vain and arrogant prince sets off on a quest for immortality. But what he finds is an ancient guardian too terrible and powerful to deceive.
Inspired by centuries-old Slavic folklore, Bone Mother is a dark and ominous tale set in a time when nature was still shrouded in malevolent mystery—back when the legends that haunt our nightmares were born. Blending primal energies with modern 3D-printing technology and thousands of painstakingly hand-painted models, this visually captivating short film brings the enigmatic supernatural being Baba Yaga and the merciless Vlad the Impaler back to spine-tingling life, reweaving their stories into the birth of an unrelenting force that would breed a thousand terrors.
Directed and Animated by
Sylvie Trouvé
Dale Hayward
of See Creature Animation
Written by
Sylvie Trouvé
Dale Hayward
Lanan Adcock
Based on the short story by
Maura McHugh
Cast
Baba Yaga
Renée-Madeleine Le Guerrier
Prince Vladislav
Rafael Petardi
Character & Art Design
Dale Hayward
Maya Modeling
André Michaud
Noncedo Khumalo
Maya Facial Rigging
Dana Darie
3D Printing Script
Chris Lesage
3D printing
André Michaud
Painting – 3D-printed Faces
Eve Lamoureux-Cyr
Claire Brognez
Puppet & Costume Fabrication
Sylvie Trouvé
Dale Hayward
Armatures
André Michaud
Additional Puppet Fabrication
Carl Michaloski
Puppet Repair
Erik Goulet
Set Fabrication
Sylvie Trouvé
Corinne Merrell
Storyboards & Animatic
Dale Hayward
Cinematography
Sylvie Trouvé
Editing
Dale Hayward
Sylvie Trouvé
Compositing
Dale Hayward
Nick Fairhead
Simon Cottee
Noncedo Khumalo
Technical Director
Eloi Champagne
Technical Coordination
Randall Finnerty
Luc Binette
Online editing
Serge Verreault
Sound Design
Sacha Ratcliffe
Music
Rebecca Foon
Musicians
Cello / Synthesizer
Rebecca Foon
Drums / Bowed Cymbals
Jamie Thompson
Bass Saxophone/ Alto Sax / French Horn / Contrabass Clarinet
Colin Stetson
Music Recording – Breakglass Studios
David Smith
Music and Dialogue Recording – NFB
Geoffrey Mitchell
assisted by
Bernard Belley
Foley Recording
Luc Léger
Sound Mix
Jean Paul Vialard
Foley
Karla Baumgardner
assisted by
Roderick Thibeault
Credits
Mélanie Bouchard
Marketing
Karine Sévigny
assisted by
Jolène Lessard
Marketing coordinator – audiovisual & digital
Angel Trasgallo Carpio
Administration
Victoire-Émilie Bessette
Rosalina Di Sario
Dominique Forget
Stéphanie Lalonde
Producer
Jelena Popović
Executive Producer
Michael Fukushima