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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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