Synopsis
At night, workers dig the sand in a pit. At dawn, around them, the immense towers of a futuristic city raise themselves, crossed by little human activities. Gradually details appear, stones get loose, the sand flows, grounds disintegrate. Fragile on its bases, the city seems in a paradoxical time of destruction and construction, a future ruin called to dissolve and to return to a mineral state.
Credits
Director (1)
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Cécile Hartmann
- Director of photography : Cécile Hartmann
- Editor : Cécile Hartmann
- Production manager : Cécile Hartmann
- Sound editor : Cécile Hartmann
- Continuity supervisor : Cécile Hartmann
- Special Effects : Cécile Hartmann
- Sound mixer : Cécile Hartmann
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Experimental, Research - Experimental, Video art
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 12 min 6 seconds
- Production formats : DVCPRO-HD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log (2013), by Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.
🎄🎁 This new episode of cult animated series ‘A Town Called Panic’ was selected for festivals around the world, and notable gathered the Audience First Prize at the Bologna
Future Film Festival in Bologna.
It was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Animated Short Film.
