Belgium – France / 12′ / Animation 2D – 3D Production : Squarefish, Autour de Minuit
One posh evening in a manor house. Christina, furious, leaves the party, followed by Georges, her husband, perfectly drunk. On their way home, their argument leads to a brutal car accident., The car crashes into a pine tree. While Georges gradually regains consciousness, Christina, she, has disappeared.
Terrified, panicked and full of guilt, he returns to the mansion where the party takes place to seek help but the atmosphere turns even more into a nightmare when he sees his wife, alive and well, in the company of a man with a bird's head. His fantasies and his buried fears then begin to resurface and materialize before his eyes.. Georges will experience a real descent into hell and face his own demons…
France, Netherlands, Belgium / 2014 / 10 min / English lyrics
Music : Thee Wreckers
Production : Autour de Minuit / Studio Rosto A.D. / S.O.I.L
“Zip up and let’s dance to the sound of breaking glass.”
A bunch of spirits doze in the back of an ambulance that can't find its way.
The third episode of the musical tetralogy featuring the Wreckers
Directed by Nieto France / 12′ / 2D – 3D Animation Production : Autour de Minuit
Swallow The Universe is a Japanese Emaki manga ((a hand-painted horizontal scroll)) which tells the grandiloquent blood-and-thunder saga of a young child lost in Manchuria’s deep jungles.. His sudden presence creates complete anarchy in the local fauna’s until-then perfectly organized and primitive world. Gifted with a striking beauty, the child’s presence awakens in the monkeys, tigers, anteaters and amphibians, envy and need of possession, originally human passions..
Production : Face
Duration : 70 min.
Year : 2019
Pays : Netherlands, France, Belgium
Production : Studio Rosto A.D, Autour de Minuit, Falcon Productions, S.O.I.L, A Private view
Tongue : English dialogues, French subtitles.
Visa number : 2020000245
SYNOPSIS
Four guys, a group. Four stories, a movie : Thee Wreckers Tetralogy.
An exquisite corpse clinging to the strolls of a virtual rock band, where music brings ghosts back to life and brings back memories, illusions, the sacrifices.
A decidedly rock musical trip !
TRAILER
COMPOSITION OF THE PROGRAM
Musical introduction : The Between performed by Thee Wreckers – 4’30
Thee Wreckers Tetralogy : No Place Like Home (2008) // Lonely Bones(2013) // Splintertime (2015) // Reruns(2018) – 44’
The documentary Everything is different, nothing has changed (2019) by Joao Costa & Robert Gradisen, devoted to Rosto and Thee Wreckers, ends the program – 20’
Born in 1969 in the Nederlands, Rosto was an artist, director, illustrator, composer, musician who marked the world of cinema through graphic richness, sound and visual of his short films. He left us on 7 mars 2019 at the age of 50 years of illness.
From his first film Beheaded (1999) at his last Reruns (2018), each of his films is an initiatory journey between the real and the imaginary, always in a rock atmosphere both languid and cataclysmic.
Rosto got attached, throughout his career, to put in pictures his dream worlds, with various graphic and cinematographic techniques and in perpetual renewal : 2D and 3D animation, real shots, puppets ...
Hybrid, confusing, multidimensional ... these are the adjectives that characterize this total and sprawling work.
He concludes in 2018 his musical tetralogy Thee Wreckers Tetralogy made of No Place Like Home, Lonely Bones, Splintertime and Reruns (awarded in Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand, Ottawa, Anima), complétée par le documentaire Everything’s different but nothing has changed.
AROUND THE PROGRAM
ROSTO'S DREAM WORLDS (29 January - 31 mars)
The exhibition Rosto's Dream Worlds will be presented for the first time, during the next Clermont-Ferrand festival in February 2020. Through the presentation of objects from his films, preparatory research, posters, songs from his band Thee Wreckers and his short films, this exhibition invites you to dive into these "dream worlds" of Rosto, strange, uncertain and fascinating.
MIND MY GAP BOX RELEASE (4 mars)
Mind My Gap is originally an online graphic novel. Rosto worked there from 1999 at 2014 with the constant project of adapting it into a physical object : a graphic novel accompanied by the music that inspired his entire visual universe.
Before leaving us in March 2019, Rosto had completed the model of 210 book pages Mind My Gap as well as the recording and mixing of 30 double album titles Songs From My Gap from his group Thee Wreckers.
SORTIE DIGITALE DU DOUBLE ALBUM SONGS FROM MY GAP (6 mars)
The 30 unreleased tracks from Thee Wreckers double album will be available on digital platforms (Spotify, this, Apple music…).
SO FAR SO EVIL VINYL RELEASE (18 avril)
In addition to the box Mind My Gap, a vinyl will be released 33 tours collector 180g. So Far So Evil included 10 pieces from his short films, including the original tapes of 4 films de Thee Wreckers Tetralogy.
EXIT FROM A DVD / BLURAY BOX (10 June)
A DVD / Bluray box set of Thee Wreckers Tetralogy will be available from June 2020.
Will be included : the four short films, the documentary, film music, many bonuses (making of, interviews, artworks…) and an exclusive booklet.
Animated feature film (92′) / France, Spain, / Animation 2D/3D Production : Autour de Minuit, Schmuby, Uniko, Abano
In these distant lands, Bears and unicorns have always been at war.
Private Celestin thirsts for the blood of Unicorns, key to eternal beauty according to the Great Sacred Book. His brother Dodu, his, don't like war, he prefers blueberries and hugs. But the final battle draws near. A unit of inexperienced bear cubs leaves the training camp for a commando mission in the Magic Forest. Will they be up to it ?
PRESSE : GAMES OF COM Emmanuelle Verniquet / emmanuelle.verniquet@gamesofcom.fr Aurelie Lebrun / aurelie.lebrun@gamesofcom.fr
INTERNATIONAL SALES : CHARADES Yohann Comte / yohann@charades.eu Joseph Perry / joseph@charades.eu
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