Synopsis
On the night of the 14th of July 1933, the writer Raymond Roussel closes the door of his room at the Hotel Des Palmes in Palermo. He swallows pills, drags the mattress to the centre of the room and lies down on it. The next morning his companion, accompanied by a valet, finds his corpse. But is he really dead? Or did he cross a border that he considered unacceptable, that between reality and imagination?
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Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Ikki Films
- Co-production : Innervision
- Foreign production companies : Bo Film, Kilowatt Soc.Coop
- Film exports/foreign sales : Varicoloured, L'Agence du court métrage
Full credits (16)
- Executive producers : Edwina Liard, Nidia Santiago
- Screenwriters : Niccolò Manzolini, Lucia Malerba
- Music Composer : Pierre Bastien
- Editors : Lola Capote Ortiz, Niccolò Manzolini
- Sound Recordist : Mathieu Z'Graggen
- Foreign producers : Serena Gramizzi, Lorenzo Burlando
- Co-producer : Luc Tharin
- Production Manager : Massimo Tiburli Marini
- Sound Editor : Mathieu Z'Graggen
- Production Assistant : Roxana Protopopoff
- Animation : Niccolò Manzolini, Lucia Malerba, Lilou Connes, Maud Faverjon, Fiorella Cecchini
- Grader : David Chantoiseau
- Sound Mixer : Régis Diebold
- Narrator : Michel Foucault
- Location manager : Elisa Trento
- Post-production supervisor : Alexis Frey-Gobyn
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Animated film
- Sub-genre : 2D animation, Paper cut-outs, Portrait, Drama, Philosophical tale
- Themes : Literature, Dreams, News story
- Production language : Italian
- Coproducer countries : France (51.91%), Italy (48.09%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
- Production year : 2022
- Runtime : 15 min 21 seconds
- Visa number : 157.408
- Visa issue date : 21/07/2022
- Production formats : Digital creation
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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