Synopsis
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.
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- Executive Producer : Autour de Minuit
- Film exports/foreign sales : Autour de Minuit
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- Executive Producer : Nicolas Schmerkin
- Screenwriter : Nieto
- Music Composer : Marco Suárez-Cifuentes
- Sound Recordist : Bruno Seznec
- Line Producer : Nicolas Schmerkin
- Production managers : Shanti Bourse, Émilie Schmerkin
- Sound Editor : Quentin Robert
- Animation : Gabriel Claverie, Éloïse Rauzier, Coline Peron, Jeanne Griseri, Léo Silly-Pélissier, Thibaut Choleau, Daniela Metheyer, Florian Durand, Fabien Jimenez, Marianne Le Moigne, Antoine David, Diego Cristófano
- Graphic Designer : Daichi Mori
- Sound Mixer : Raphaël Seydoux
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film, Documentary
- Sub-genre : 2D & 3D animation, Fantasy, Philosophical tale, Adventure
- Themes : Legends, Human nature
- Production language : Japanese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 12 min 18 seconds
- Visa number : 153.198
- Visa issue date : 31/08/2021
- Production formats : HD-CAM
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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