A film by David Myriam. A young girl tries to escape by dream from her prison world. Its only interlocutor are a robot and some screens. The walls disappears into imaginary escapes and reality come back her dreams. Will the child of the future have still enough powerful dreams to be able to get out of a cold and functional world?
Crew
Mathieu Lozinguez, Sound Track
Festivals
- Festival FCAN 2007, Belgium, Neufch�teau, international selection - Festival I Castelli Animati 2007, Italy, international program - Interfilm 2007, Berlin, Germany - L�Alternativa, Barcelona independant film festival, 2007, Spain - LUFF, Underground Film and Musique Festival, 2007, Lausanne, Suisse - Festival court m�trange 2007, Rennes, France, european festival of strange and fantastic short films - LIAF Festival 2007, London international animation festival - Melbourne international animation festival 2007 (MIAF), Australia - TIFF 2006, Tirana International Film Festival
Filmmaker Bio
David Myriam practise artistic creation since 1990: drawing, comics, poems, short stories, animation films with various techniques (puppets, clay). In 1998, discover sand animation during a training course. First sand animation film is « A hole in the place of heart », in 2005, screening in different festivals: Hiroshima, Norwich, Wissembourg, Aubagne, ISFF Curta Cinema, Lille « Do you mind ? » is the second short animation film in 2006. In 2005, publish a book entitled "Antidote": www.art-engage.net, with black drawings, short stories and poems. Pratice Sand painting live for shows, festivals, special events, in France and foreign countries.
A blog with some zoom but no magnifier
29.5.09
Do You Mind?
8.5.09
Lemmings Massive Suicide
Lemmings suicide is a urban legend started by a Walt Disney film called White Wilderness.
People widely believed that lemmings committed suicide, and on a massive scale. The filming took place in Alberta, Canada. But when the film crew got there, they found no lemmings and no examples of suicide. The lemming's natural habitat is northern Canada, Alaska, Siberia and Scandinavia. Not to be dissuaded, the crew went down the unfortunate path of story fabrication.
They paid Inuit children 25 cents for every lemming they could catch.
They then placed the lemmings on a large turntable, like a 'merry-go-round' hidden with snow, and got the lemmings running. With some imaginative camera angles and editing, they made a few dozen lemmings look like thousands migrating and rushing to a scene even more startling.
After the migration sequence, the lemmings were collected and taken to a cliff top overlooking a river. The documentary crew crouched down hidden from the cameras, and pushed the lemmings over the edge of the cliff to their death in the rushing water below. The myth of lemming suicide turned from fable to fact ....
3.5.09
Etsy - O artesanato na web
Após ver coisas como jardins dentro de pequenos frascos ou mesmo gorros do Bender posso dizer que existem efectivamente por aí alguns génios do artesanato, já outros digamos que... estão-se a iniciar.
Link: http://www.etsy.com/