Short-Movie
Last Drop (Animation)
Back to 2011 with Last Drop, an animated movie directed by Thomas Dufour, Quentin Retif, Benjamin Weislo and Marc-Antoine Cesari during their studies at the Ecole Georges Mélès. In less than 5 minutes, the short-film demonstrates how the holdup is a dangerous sport… Humor, technical mastery, typed characters and great scenario, Last Drop does not give a chance for boredom [...]
Louchebem (Animation)
Louchebem is a 5 minutes CGI animated film directed by par Théo Girettes, Fabien Masson, Stéphanie Grard and Boris Laprade during their journey at the ESMA Toulouse. A black and white movie subtly staging the sorrow of a butcher facing the loss of his beloved. Grain, light, movement, each part serves the quality of this great production a soundtrack [...]
Heart (Animation)
Heart is an amazing animation about 7 minutes directed by Erick Oh. Nominated in dozens of festivals, the films appears as an abstract tale, full of symbols and metaphors, embodied in a human heart. To cover the director’s words, “Heart explores transcendence”. Subtle, incredibly well-executed, this short-movie seduces as much for its modeling than for its content. To [...]
Hughbert (Animation)
“Hughbert” is a 1min30 animation directed by Mallory Dyer in 2010 during her first year at the Cal Arts Institute. Inspired by the narrayions of Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey, the movie stages the permanent fear of an old man named Hughbert in front of death. Atmosphere, editing, thread or music, composed by Jarred McAdams, each part of [...]
Cupidon (Animation)
The ESMA Montpellier pursues the presentation of the 2012 graduation films. After DUM Spiro last week, the Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques proposes Cupidon, an animation directed by Simon Bau, Clémentine Choplain, Marie Ecarlat, Benoît Huguet and Julien Soulage on a Damien Deshayes music. The movie follows the adventures of a lazy, [...]
DUM Spiro (Animation)
DUM Spiro is a 6 minutes animation directed by Boris Cailly, Brieuc Guenole, Jean-Baptiste Hardion, Thomas Lemoine and Sébastien Wackowiez as part of their course at the ESMA Montpellier. A Roman legionary who has to deliver an important message crosses the wood. Starts for him a journey full of twists and turns. This funny movie shines through its technical mastery [...]
The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Lion (Animation)
Directed in 2010 by Alois Di Leo as graduation work for the UK National Film and Television School, “The Boy Who Wanted To Be A Lion” is an animated short-movie surprising both by aesthetics, colors and scenario. Alois Di Leo introduces us a deaf boy who, after a school visit to the zoo, falls in [...]
The Renter (Animation)
The Renter is an animation directed by Jason Carpenter. Shown in more than 85 festivals, the film has been nominated about 20 times. Despite the rendering and the textures, “The Renter” has been made digitally. The short-movie is inspired by its creator’s childhood, as Jason Carpenter evokes the past meeting with a renter of his childminder who, [...]
Gerhard Richter Painting by Corinna Belz
Release on September 25 in DVD/Blu-ray of “Gerhard Richter Painting”, the documentary of Corinna Belz dedicated to the immense German painter. The director so followed for 6 months in 2010 the creative process of Gerhard Richter working on a series of large abstract canvasses. A 1h37 film that allows us to access to the world of one of the [...]
