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<p>A nosedive from outer space to the Earth’s core. An experiment in various scenery changes using pixels. This film is #47 of 52 experimental animation films I made in 2017.</p>
<p>The island of Ouessant is off the very tip of Brittany, making it the last bit of land before America. All its men used to work at sea and the island was therefore almost exclusively populated by women. The film's director, as she immerses herself in the life of the island, plunges into the footage, and, somewhere between dream and reality, she identifies with Barba, a girl from Ouessant whose father disappeared at sea without a trace. How, then, can she grieve? The film adopts the form of an ethnographic tale, halfway between an anthropological documentary, a holiday video and a work of fiction.</p>
<p>Thoughts and memories race through the mind during this experience of extreme solitude. Over there, in the frozen vastness, bodies go round and round in circles while the winter visitor’s mind runs at top speed. One thing only is clear: no need for other worlds, only mirrors.</p>
<p>It's a wake up story over there in the little village surrounded by mountains. The old man, lying on his bed, his body peaceful and his face radiant. Then all come around the body to say goodbye to him. Family, friends, neighbors. For three days, they talk, drink, cry, argue and remember - And then they laugh too.</p>
<p>What good is free speech if no one is listening?</p>
<p>Aurélien is a very close friend who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. Among the symptoms, an atypical use of language that complicates his integration into society. His speech indeed shows a certain difficulty in incorporating the codes that govern social ties and interactions, which therefore excludes him from any lasting otherness. Beyond what autism can explain, beyond also the hypotheses that I could formulate, there is a testimony about him that interests me greatly: his own. How does he see himself, think about himself, impress himself, experience himself?</p>
<p>Agathe, 39, has but one obsession: to have a child. She finds her ex, Marc-Antoine, a DJ, mixing techno in Marseille. As she tries to talk him into getting back together, plastic bags come to life and attack the city.</p>
<p>A portrait of the birth of an idea. Made with Post-It notes and grease pencils.</p>
<p>Mr. Kubota studies the immortal jellyfish, with the purpose to discover how humanity can live forever.<br /> Mr. Kubota is searching for eternity, because at the end of the day he is terribly afraid to die. And so he decided that he would not die at all.</p>
<p>Fish can talk, even in our cities. This is an encounter between two worlds separated by the horizon, two languages ruled by the same basic needs. From the deep sea to the fish tanks in our homes, the language of fish reflects our own story.</p>
<p>An encounter between an entomologist and a tiger, also known as Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly: <em>Dialogue du tigre.</em></p>
<p>In the reserves of a museum immersed in a scintillating, intermittent, flashing night, children's toys, earth whistles, rod puppets, feathers, appear in the hands of apparitors, among traps or cages, like so many avatars of the bird.</p>
<p>Nikki Schuster's <em>animistica</em> opens with the viewer awakening as if inside a restless dream, transformed into a strange vermin. The camera assumes the perspective of an insect burrowing through the dark crumbling underground, kindred to the community of beetles swarming under the idyllic green facade of the lawn in David Lynch's famous opening sequence of <em>Blue Velvet</em>. However, this is no straightforward soil. Organic textures of all kinds interweave and rush by, innumberable macro shots of Mexican flora and fauna morph and melt into a pulsing visual weave conjuring an instinctive sense of creepy crawling by way of a wondrous fantasy biotope. As in nature, change constitutes its basic principle, the interplay of growth and decay: Earth becomes bark becomes bone becomes feathers becomes sand, stone, pelt and fur.<br /> <br /> Naturally, this mutating world has its own soundtrack that is no less multifaceted. It crackles and snaps, rustles and scrapes, rattles and chirps – a veritable musique concrète et organique. Paralleling the ambiguity of the image, time and again curious synthetic aural sprinklings sprout in a way that makes you unsure what is "artificial" and what is "natural" to this symphony of sounds. The only thing that is beyond any doubt is the eeriness - to which in fact the entire film tends. An expedition is undertaken in a realm of rotting animal carcasses and rampant spider webs, accompanied by a gloomy droning like sound of hungry swarms of flies. <em>animistica</em> forages around most decidedly in the borderlands of the horror genre. And as is true of its most exciting practitioners, Schuster boldly immerses himself in the darkness, revels in its creepiness, and celebrates the splendor of decay. A kaleidoscope of ecology in all its horrifying beauty. (Andrey Arnold)</p>
<p>In the hour of the surge in climate imbalance from anthropic origins and of the sixth extinction, Climatic Species interrogates the evolution of the living: animal, human and plant.</p>
<p>A motion-induced delirium that loosens the borders between earth and sky, between being awake and dreaming: "A cinematographic look through the 'egocentric camera' as homage to cinema as a site of contemplation and trance".</p>
<p>A group of amateur actors, former migrants from the "Calais Jungle", play JP Belmondo and his acolytes in Week-end à Zuydcoote , directed by Henri Verneuil in 1964. This film describes the wanderings of a group of French soldiers trying to embark for England in the midst of the debacle of 1940.</p>
<p>Superimposed, condensed, multiplied, thousands of documentary drawings in successive series come to life on the screen, composing a veritable visual symphony of everyday objects.</p>
<p>Czech video artist Anna Vasof uses objects to create small wonders, hence the title of the film, and manages to highlight her amused and anti-narrative view. Changing the use of things, to varying degrees, changes the world around us.</p>
<p>Animated essay on sound, the moon and birds; or rather, on narration, experimentation and play. Excerpts from 16mm films dating from the 30s to the 60s were used as a support for engraving, ink drawing and experimental animation with quantum dots, photo-luminescent nanoparticles.</p>
<p>This film reveals 7 idiomatic expressions originating from the island of Jeju, located in the south of South Korea. Its narration, both sensitive and anthropological, presents the matriarchal society of the "Haenyo": the women of the sea.</p>
<p>Sarang, a young 25-year-old Iraqi Kurd, tells the story of his exile. In the North of France, at the Grande-Synthe camp, his personal story opens like a diary on the memory of a martyred country and the daily life of waiting for a fleeing community.</p>
<p>Left brain vs. right brain. The left side of the screen was created with the right hand. The right side of the screen was made with the left hand.</p>
<p>Online players describe their struggles with "swatting", a life-threatening cyber-harassment phenomenon that looms over them whenever they play. The events take shape through youtube videos and wireframe images from a video game.</p>
<p>The pupils of a CE2 class of the Plessis-Cellier school in Nantes try to find out where numbers come from. They learn their history with Jean Pézennec, a researcher in mathematics.</p>
<p>6th grade students from the Longchamp college in Marseille evoke elsewhere using objects that remind them of a country left behind, a trip they have taken or would like to take one day.</p>
<p>What is the part of choice, commitment, chance, the part of wonder and anxiety in the researcher's activity? Here, the question is not "What are you looking for?" but "Why are you looking?"</p>
<p>Human mouth noises are strung together and paired with animation of a single piece of string.</p>
<p>A botanist gives classes in amphi and is deeply bored. On his way back home, he inadvertently knocked over a cup of coffee and this inspired him to paint on his large white wall. What follows is incredible.</p>
<p>Following a guided tour around the collections of the Marseille History Museum on immigration at the beginning of the 20th century, children try to reconstruct the puzzle of knowledge, between reality and imagination…</p>
<p>Legacy of his paternal heritage, Marc devotes the majority of his time to his passion: “I live in a world of sounds”. This existential quest leads him to put down roots, and start his family, on the edge of a forest in the Vosges mountains.</p> <p>As the sun sets, he hides his microphones in the undergrowth, starts recording, and recedes into nature. All night his set-up captures the sound ambiance: breaths, cries, songs, scratches... Back home in his basement studio, Marc listens to his recordings in search of the extra-ordinary.</p> <p>Curious and intrigued by his nocturnal activities, his daughter, Lucie, shows interest in accompanying him. She is often the first audience of the sonic canvases created by her father.</p> <p>His work begins to gain in notoriety; in schools, artistic circles, and the musical scene... Soon a composer, Christian Zanési, invites him to collaborate on a project creating a piece of electroacoustic music.</p>