Genius Loci

Direction & Screenplay

Adrien Mérigeau

animation

France

2019

Language: French

Subtitles: English

16 MIN

Short film in competition

Grand Jury Prize - International Short Film

Festivals

Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand - 2020

Festival International du film d'animation d'Annecy - 2020

Berlinale Festival - 2020

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide.

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18

Sep

13:00

Salle Québecor

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Adrien Mérigeau

Direction & Screenplay

After studying animation in the French animation school EMCA from 2001 to 2004, Adrien Mérigeau first worked in Cartoon Saloon in Ireland as Background Supervisor on the Oscar nominated feature film The Secret of Kells by Tomm Moore (2009).
Then he directed his first short film Old Fangs (2010), and worked as Art Director on Cartoon Saloon’s second Oscar nominated film Song of the Sea by Tomm Moore (2014).
Adrien moved back to France in 2015 and started to work with Kazak Productions on his second short film Genius Loci, completed in October 2019.

Original Title

Genius Loci

Duration

16 MIN

Language

French

Subtitles

English

Country

France

Direction

Adrien Mérigeau

Animation

Rui Chang, Camille Chao, Hippolyte Cupillard, Céline Devaux, Vaïana Gauthier, Alan Holly, Lisa Matuszak, Camille Monnier, Hefang Wei, Chenghua Yang

Music

Théo Mérigeau, Lê Quan Ninh

Screenplay

Adrien Mérigeau, Nicolas Pleskof