Screening of the 2-D animated short film "D'Ombres et d'Ailes"

D'Ombres et d'Ailes is an animated short film using birds as a metaphor for humans. Its main themes are the place of the individual in a group, conditioning by one-track thinking, exclusion, the right to difference and indignation, and love.

The inspiration for this film came from a meeting between Mathieu Courtois, producer at Vivement Lundi !, and Elice Meng, artist. Elice was painting birds and Mathieu Courtois, fascinated by their poetry, saw an opportunity to animate them.

Mathieu Courtois then contacted Eleonora Marinoni, graduate from the Animation department of LISAA Paris, to co-direct the film. She in turn asked Gaëlle Diot-Néant, also a LISAA graduate, to be involved in the layout, scenery and colourization.

The graphic identity of the film is mainly based on painting, drawing, ink, and gouache, to create personalized textures and real transparent washes or materials painted with a palette knife. That being said, the aim was not to make an animated painted film, but rather a film animated in 2-D.