Five brilliant new short-shorts by students at Gobelins were released last week. They were produced for the 2011 Annecy Festival, which has just wrapped up in France, and these gorgeous, musically-driven 1-minute pieces were directed by 5-member teams:
Jazz’in
by Joël Corcia, Wandrille Maunoury, Bong Nguyen, Thomas Reteuna and Bernard Som
Oh gee Oh why
by Hanne Galvez, Yoann Hervo, Juliette Laurent, Stéphanie Mercier and Pierre Zenzius
The 2011 Annecy Festival is a couple months away (June 6th – 11th), but today we get to watch the teaser, wihch was created by the Paris-based studio La Station Animation.
The 2010 Annecy International Animation Film Festival Awards were handed out months ago. The award for Best Graduation Film went to Le Phare (The Lighthouse Keeper), which we featured here back in 2009, but another student film was honored that night. Sauvage, by Paul Cabon, took home the Prix spécial du jury pour un film de fin d’études (Special Jury Award for Graduation Films). I hadn’t seen a clip of this 5-minute film on the web before, but this morning Annecy uploaded :30 from the short (a longer clip is viewable on his site). I would have guessed this was made in the 70s or 80s, judging by the art direction, but it was produced by Cabon in 2009 while studying at La Poudrière. The short follows a bald man who returns to his wild nature. [NSFW - male frontal nudity]
Pierre Mousquet and Jérôme Cauwe’s animated tale of two wrestlers won the CANAL+ creative aid Award at the 2010 Annecy Festival. Je Te Pardonne (I Forgive You) is the result of their studies at La Cambre in Brussels.
The 2010 Annecy Festival has released two more signal films from the students at Gobelins. The first, Red River Bay, takes us to a beast-filled swamp, and the second, Junk Space, fuses baseball, junk and some metaphysical energy cloud thing. Not sure what it all means, but damn is it beautiful.
Red River Bay – directed by De Rémi Bastie, Nicolas Dehghani, Rachid Guendouze, Maxime Mary and Jeremy Pires
Junk Space – directed by De Marion Delannoy, Jonathan Djob Nkondo, Paul Lacolley, Kevin Manach and Nicolas Pegon
After yesterday’s post about the 2 brilliant signal films for the 2010 Annecy Festival, I feel spoiled. Prepare for more spoiling. Today we get another, equally as wonderful film from students at Gobelins. Chaman was directed by De Théo Boubounelle, Chloé Bury, Jean Baptiste Cumont, Claire Fauvel and Vincent Nghiem. It focuses on “a curious child who discovers the magical world behind the ritual of the shamans of his tribe.”
One of the co-directors, Vincent Nghiem, posted this “making of” video, which includes nearly 3 minutes of production design, storyboards, animatics and rough animation.
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Two new signal films for the 2010 Annecy Festival have arrived, straight of the Gobelins’ university ovens. The festival began yesterday and runs through June 12th. As in previous years, the student body at Gobelins delight us with gorgeous and clever shorts that whet the audiences’ appetite.
Soapy Trip – Sylvain Fabre, Guillaume Fesquet, Adeline Grange, Julien Rossire and Clara Voisin
M Eustache – dir. De François Barreau, Violaine Briat, Clément Girard, Benoit Tranchet and Maïté Xia
