Synopsis
How can people affected by Alzheimer's still tell their life stories? In the lounge of an Alzheimer clinic, a music sets the dance of an elderly woman in a wheelchair in motion. Entirely drawn and animated from memory, A Biography reconstructs point by point this resurgence of memory there where it was no longer expected, in a single effort to protect this body and this life from from oblivion.
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- Executive Producer : Films de Force Majeure
- Co-production : Studio Lemon
- Foreign production company : index.film
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- Executive Producer : Jean-Laurent Csinidis
- Screenwriter : Alexander Schellow
- Editor : Jean-Laurent Csinidis
- Foreign Producer : Alexander Schellow
- Co-producer : Pierre Armand
- Sound editors : Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Nans Mengeard
- Sound Mixer : Nans Mengeard
- Post-production supervisors : Nora Bertone, Jérôme Nunes
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Video art
- Themes : Dance, Illness, Ageing
- Production language : No dialogue
- Coproducer countries : France, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Germany)
- Production year : 2017
- Runtime : 6 min
- Visa number : 146.774
- Visa issue date : 19/03/2018
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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