Tríd An Stoirm
2012 · 8m · Ireland
Directed by Fred Burdy
Genres: animation, fantasy, horror
Tones: dark, melancholic, mythic
A young woman tries to bring her drowned husband back from the dead, facing a banshee on a harrowing journey into the Otherworld.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Irish folklore as animated necromancy—sure, it hits the expected beats, but Burdy's restraint undercuts any real weirdness; a film that could've been genuinely transgressive instead settles for atmospheric competence.
Tríd An Stoirm inherits the formal language of Celtic mythology and animated expressionism with rare discipline, each frame composed as if aware of centuries of folklore illustration—this is craft in direct conversation with its tradition.
The decision to animate the banshee encounter in sharp, skeletal line work against softer backgrounds transforms what could be rote fantasy into something tactile and unsettling—that single tonal shift in the visual grammar is what makes the descent feel earned.