SYNOPSIS
A sanctuary in the depths of the forest. Masks are waiting and getting ready. Music begins... A cage is brought. Inside, attached, is the victim. The ceremony can begin : a joyful celebration of spring.
Film without dialogues
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Technique: CGI and Motion capture
• Software:
3DStudio Max
• Cinema Sound : Dolby SR 5.1 •
Process : colour •
Screened on 35 mm (ratio 1.85, 900 m), DCP (frame 16/9), HDCam, DigiBeta, Blu-ray, DVD, QuickTime
CREDITS
Director, Script, Graphic design, Animation : Jerome Boulbes • Music : Michel Korb • Musicians : Tokiko Ihara (shô), Rin
Matoba (taiko), Reiko Imanishi (koto), Nehito I shida (kokyû), Didier Malherbe (khên) , Michel Korb (programming) •
Choreography, dance:
Nicolas Vladyslav •
Puppeteer
: Dinaig Stall •
Editing
: Marc Boyer •
Modeling
: Alexandre Dubosc •
Motion capture : Gilbert Louet – EESI • Sound design : Morgan Dufour • Mix : Adam Wolny
DIRECTOR
Director: Jerome Boulbes • Born in Casablanca, Morocco, on November 2 nd , 1967
Biography: Jerome Boulbes studied illustration at the Parisian school "Arts Decoratifs". He worked a few years in video games and as a freelance technician, and then decided to focus on a more personal work. His first film, "Le Puits" (The Well, 1999), produced by Lardux Films, has been selected in many festivals and received several awards. In his next five short films, he continued to develop his personal fantasy and poetic vision, as well as his exploration of computer graphics' possibilities. In
2007, he entered the artist residency Kujoyama Villa in Kyoto, and returned to settle permanently in Kyoto after a residency at the Maison des Auteurs in Angouleme (France). He teaches animation at Seika University.
Filmography : Le Puits (The Well, 1999), La Mort de Tau (The Death of Tau, 2001), Rascagnes (2003), Eclosion (Emergence,
2006), Masques (Masks, 2009), Le Printemps (The Spring, 2012).
Address : Kamigyo-ku, Kashiwakiyomori-cho 960 – 6028311 Kyoto-shi – Japan • Ph. : (+81) 9060578276 • E-mail : jboulbes@gmail.com
• Web : www.rascagnes.com
• Film's blog : www.rascagnes.com/printemps-blog
PRODUCTION
Production company: Lardux Films • Producer : Marc Boyer
Adresse : 45 ter rue de la Revolution, 93100 Montreuil, France • Ph. : +33 148 59 41 88
E-mail : lardux@lardux.com • Web : www.lardux.com
Coproduction companies: Les Trois Ours (Olivier Catherin) , TVM-Cineplume
DISTRIBUTION
Distribution company: Autour de Minuit • Contact: Annabel Sebag • Address: 21 rue Henry Monnier, 75009 Paris , France •
Ph.: (+33) 142 81 17 28
• E-mail: annabel
@autourdeminuit.com •
Web: www.autourdeminuit.com
PARTICIPATION IN FESTIVALS
2012: Braunschweig International Film Festival (Germany) [1 st screening: November 6] - National Animation Film Festival, Bruz
(France) >> Sacem Award for Best Music and Special Mention of the Media Jury - Tirana International Film Festival (Albania) -
Istanbul Animation Festival (Turkey) •
2013: International Digital Film Festival, Cotonou (Benin) - Animfest, Athens (Greece) -
Fantasporto, Porto (Portugal) - Anima, Brussels (Belgium) - Animac, Lleida (Spain) - Cinema-Nature Meetings, Dompierre-sur-
Besbre (France) - Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France) - Cortisonici Short Film Festival, Varese (Italy) – European Film
Festival, Lille (France) - Trois Jours Trop Courts, Castres (France) - Fantaspoa, Porto Alegre (Brazil) - Kan Film Festival,
Wroclaw (Poland) - Future Film Festival, Bologna (Italy) - Wonder and Imaginary Film Festival, Paris (France) - Festival of
Nations, Ebensee (Austria) - New Cinemas Festival, Paris (France) - Forest Arts Festival, Chavagnac-La Fayette (France) -
Festival Aye Aye, Nancy (France) - Jecheon Int. Music & Film Festival (South Korea) - Lago Film Fest, Revine Lago (Italy) -
Cartoon Club, Rimini (Italy) - Grain à démoudre, Gonfreville l’Orcher (France) - Short Film Meeting, Montpellier (France) - Paris
Courts Devant (France) - CutOut Fest, Querétaro (Mexico) - MUMIA, Underground World Animation Festival, Belo Horizonte
(Brazil) -
Animanima, Čačak (Serbia) - Cinanima, Espinho (Portugal) •
2014 :
RETURN DVD AND VIDEO TO
Mikhal Bak, 60 rue du 19 Mars 1962, 94500 Champigny-sur-Marne, France • Phone: (+33) 979 34 99 02
STILLS available on internet: www.studio-wasia.com/promofilms/menu.html
IMPORTANT
Contact concerning the film's submission and expedition for screening:
Mikhal Bak, film's festival-tour manager • Ph.: (+33) 979 34 99 02 • E-mail: mikhal.bak@gmail.com
The film may be viewed on www.studio-wasia.com/promofilms/menu.html (a password is needed).