The film existed only in Jacque’s memory because all that remained were the two cardboard thief characters. Jacques called upon his memories to recreate the decor and the characters with a decorator. The operator then filmed frame by frame to reconstruct the film.
When Agnès Varda was preparing the film Jacquot de Nantes in 1990, she was able to shoot in the small apartment where Jacques was raised. While emptying the attic, Agnès found pieces of 9.5 mm film, dry and folded, almost broken and two small cardboard figures. The film was impossible to project and the film had to be remade. Showing the pieces of film to Jacques he immediately identified La Ballerine. A student from the Fine Arts School of Nantes therefore redrew each shot, frame by frame, on blank 16 mm film.
Ruby Gillman, a sweet and awkward high school student, discovers she's a direct descendant of the warrior kraken queens. The kraken are sworn to protect the oceans of the world against the vain, power-hungry mermaids. Destined to inherit the throne from her commanding grandmother, Ruby must use her newfound powers to protect those she loves most.
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy becoming a revue star. When Eva fails and loses her money, Armand tries to help her out.
Sam finds a badly beaten woman outside his house.
Maleta Llena
A pampered gentleman's seamlessly automated life is thrown into chaos when he pursues a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.
Simple-minded Joseph Briteman breaks a golden rule of his 'life skills' program when he walks away unsupervised to rescue his long lost baby sister.
A house uproots itself from its suburban foundations and sets off on an epic journey.
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
A poem. A tale made of silence and complicity. Light and shadows, the charm of the night, the moon as a passion... This is a tale about someone who tried to make the dream come true. This is the tale about the cat and the moon.
The film was produced applying mixed techniques on Super 8 film support.
Movimiento Browniano
Commissioned by Harald Inhülsen for MasterclassFilm. A companion piece to Stefano Miraglia's Self-portrait, also part of the same commission.
La Costante di Archimede
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In this mesmerizing experimental film, Stephen King television mini-series The Langoliers is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.
Based on a story by Henry Van Dyke. After years of searching, a fourth Wise Man finds Jesus Christ, but he has no gifts left to give Him. He is comforted to learn that "inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40)
To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Made when the director was at the Royal College of Art, an animated film illustrating that life is made up of a succession of meeting and partings.