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.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (3)
Production and distribution (1)
- 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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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.