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‘Rabbit Trap’ Director Bryn Chainey On The Roots Of His Trippy Folkloric Fantasy: “A Film Should Be An Experience” — Sundance Film Festival


‘Rabbit Trap’ director Bryn Chainey on the roots of his trippy folkloric fantasy: “A film should be an experience” – Sundance Film Festival.

It stars Dev Patel as Darcy, who works as a sound engineer for his wife Daphne (Rosy McEwan), who makes experimental music at their home in a remote Welsh cottage. Almost immediately, a local child (Jade Groot) appears, which doesn’t seem so strange at all — until he grows petulant and sinister, making more and more demands on the couple. And then the next short was a direct contemporary fairytale where I used a nature spirit called the woodwoes to represent this boy’s fear of… [Laughs] I’ll give away spoilers if I explain it.

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