The Tree (1993)
February 25, 1993Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Kathleen Tipton
Mother

Clara Jane Hannon
Infant

Jameson Baltes
5-Year Old Boy

Travis Burk
8-Year Old Boy

Jessica Ivy
8-Year Old Girl

Benjamin Troy
12-Year Old Boy

Jason D'Rion
14-Year Old Boy

Danni Wheeler
17-Year Old Girl

Michael Kenworthy
17-Year Old Boy

David A.R. White
Soldier

Travis Martin
Rocket Boy

Todd Field
Director

Matthew Modine
Boy as Middle-Aged Man / Boy as Old Man

Mab Ashforth
Mother's Voice

Todd Field
Screenplay / Second Unit Director / Director

Shel Silverstein
Novel

Roy Cullen
Screenplay / Producer

Lynda Montague
Casting Director

Richard Davenport
Cinematography

Patrick Sherman
Production Design

Donna Lyn Greenbaum
Casting Director

Tal Skloot
Editor

Kim M. Ferry
Key Hair Stylist

Jayne Marie Kehoe
Costume Designer
Details.
Wiki.
The Tree is a 1993 short film that Todd Field created while a fellow at the AFI Conservatory. It is a non-verbal dramatic piece following the life of a boy born at the turn of the century. The single setting, an apple tree set high on a rural ridge, is where we glimpse the boy mature, fall in love, go to war, return with his own son, and finally pay his last respects as a very old man who has seen much change. The set was designed using the tree as a scale foreground visual anchor and employing forced perspective for other items appearing in frame, including distant mountains, a train, and a town in transition. The scene changes from season to season and year to year all achieved practically using trompe-l'œil.
The film is loosely based upon and inspired by the story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
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