Synopsis
As her team digitises the traces of an unidentified creature, a palaeontologist mourns a loved one. A meditation on preservation, daughter of discovery and mother of loss.
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- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Éric Prigent
- Screenwriter : Kendra Mclaughlin
- Editors : Kendra Mclaughlin, Yuyan Wang
- Sound Recordist : Tristan Soreau
- Production Manager : Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
- Sound Editor : Tristan Soreau
- Foley artist : Felipe Esparza Pérez
- Grader : Baptiste Évrard
- Sound Mixer : Yannick Delmaire
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction, Animated film, Documentary, Experimental
- Themes : History, Memories, Death
- Production language : English, French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 20 min
- Production formats : Digital creation - Computer generated images
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.55
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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