Synopsis
Each human being must invent their own destiny from chaos. John Cowper Powys - Autobiography.
One morning, after a night full of agitated dreams, a man wakes up. Without surprise or fear but enclosed in a body he does not know or control, nevertheless, he tries to join his parents who rush behind a door. Through endless contorsions, he manages to let them in, but at his sight, they are overcome with dismay and disgust, his parents slam the door and lock it.
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- Executive Producer : SEESAW animation studio
- Film exports/foreign sales : L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producer : Louise Mercadier
- Screenwriters : Frédéric Even, Louise Mercadier
- Directors of Photography : Frédéric Even, Louise Mercadier
- Music Composers : Alexis Cordier, Frédéric Even, Maël Des Mesnards, Julien Vandenbroucque
- Editor : Élisa Zurfluh-Faggianelli
- Sound Recordist : Tanguy Clerc
- Costume designers : Dominique Bonin, Francine Hallaert
- Author of original work : Franz Kafka
- Voice : Sandrine Desmet, Simon Vialle, William Astre
- Production manager : Louise Mercadier
- Sound Editor : Frédéric Even
- Production Designer : Louise Mercadier
- Foley artist : Max Vande Merghel
- Music performer : Ida Zurfluh
- Sound Mixer : Thomas Van Pottelberge
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Literary adaptation , Bizarre
- Themes : The absurd, Metamorphosis, Exclusion
- Production language : German
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2015
- Runtime : 15 min 23 seconds
- Visa number : 143.523
- Visa issue date : 14/04/2016
- Production formats : Photographic camera
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Adaptd from Die Verwandlung (Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka.
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