If you like an extended visual metaphor, then you will love The Nymph, written and directed by Vanessa Stachel at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of the internationally most acclaimed film and media schools. Together with a team of producers, editors, VFX creators – basically a whole film crew made up of fellow students, she has created a branded short for Greenpeace Germany – and a tale of love and woe it is indeed. The story is deceptively simple. A young knight, defeated and injured, flees the battlefield. Nicholas (played with equal charm and menace by Jacob Haw-Wells) finds himself by a beautiful pool in secluded woodland. There he encounters the nymph Ilo (played subtly by Peter Todd, who also narrates the story) who heals his wounds. Yet this healing comes at a price – part of the natural world around them dies with this act of generosity. Sir Nicholas can rejoin the fight and claim victory. Yet he returns to his healer and a friendship, then a romance blossoms. Combining…
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