abstract:The Chestnut Tree is a short film which made its debut at the Laemmle Sunset 5 and then showed in the Austin Film Festival and the San Diego Asian Film Festival. It is a 2-D hand-drawn short film about a little girl and her mother that revisit memories under the chestnut tree.
She put the basket of babies on a blanket in the shade of a chestnut tree.
VOA: special.2009.02.28
"Happy birthday to me, " I said to the ripening chestnuttree in the front yard, not yet knowing that the gifts I would receive that day would make me agree to return, reluctantly and to protect sacred secrets, to the grief-breathing place of childhood, to the Seaboro River.
Recently reclaimed by Historical Woods of America, this amazing horse chestnuttree has provided the wood for a rare and unique creation by William Henry.