The Sunken Convent

The first time I read Hans Christian Andersen's reworking of Gottschalk's 'The Sunken Convent',
I was fascinated by the short story. It has a peculiar feeling of impending doom, which
we've tried to match in this very free adaptation.

I'm fascinated by how we as people apparently crave our own demise. How our actions often
prefer habit over logic despite sometimes fatal consequences. A great example is our handling
of the environment. Despite all our knowledge of the subject and a number of possible
solutions already established, our planet is still as doomed as it was the first time we learned
about climate change and global warming. We know how to change things in the right direction,
yet we do nothing. This paradox intrigues me.

'The Knight' in the story becomes a grotesque picture of these patterns of behaviour. A man
so stuck in old habits, that he actively weighs himself down - a selfdestructive dinosaur. As
such, you could say that the film is a satire on modern day apathy - a film about how human
nature will undoubtedly lead to our demise.