ANTON is an experimental Brooklyn Folk Horror feature film. 

Anton, a man who spends his days as a small time gambler of lotto scratch-off's and in underground betting clubs while hiding from a disgruntled landlord, finds his apartment slowly turning into a forest.  What seems at first magical, quickly turns sinister as the forest becomes more dangerous and Anton becomes separated from his Brooklyn world. The film contemplates isolation in the proverbial urban jungle, and questions Anton’s fragile reality as he becomes more and more bound to the forest. This piece explores an urban dweller’s tenuous connection to nature, and sees the growing apartment forest as an echo of Anton’s inner most fears and desires.

ANTON contemplates the dread that arises in the solitude of the urban environment, and the character’s decent into a primordial place of predator and prey that reflects his psyche. 

Shot in all natural light in Brooklyn, NY, within the hand-fabricated forest in the director’s apartment, and throughout the surrounding neighborhood, this film features primarily local actors and crew. ANTON was created by artists with a love of experimental horror, and is a true product of one Brooklyn neighborhood, where we came together to explore the beauty within horror, and the fantastical possibilities in cinema.