An Excavation of Us (Le Déterrement de Nous), 2D+3D compositing animation, 2017.
The shadows of Napoleon's army fall upon a boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.
Crew:
Writer & Director: Shirley Bruno
Animation & Compositing: Alexandru Petru Badelita
Sound Design & Mix: Rémi Mencucci
Storyboard & Editing: Shirley Bruno
Music concrête: Junkai Chen
With support by the Greek Film Centre & Le Fresnoy - studio national des arts contemporains
Festivals:
Annecy Animation International FF 2018 (France), Internationale Kurzfimtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Hong Kong International FF, Maryland Film Festival (USA), Kaohsiung Film Festival (Taiwan), Third Horizon (Miami), Timishort FF (Romania), Animage International Animation (Brazil), AnimaSyros International Animation Festival + Agora (Greece)
Exhibitions:
"Still I Rise : Feminisms, gender, resistance - Act 3" Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol UK
"Intertextuality: Performance/Subjectivity in Experimental Shorts" special screening, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles US
Special Screening, MoMA PS.1, nyc, ny
"Echos Dunkerquois" FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque France
Broadcast:
Tënk
Kweli TV
Distributors:
Vidéographe
Awards:
Prix Ars Electronica - Honorary Mention
Annecy Animation International Film Festival Off-Limits Prize
Distribution: Unlimited release (FRANCE) in cinemas by FLUX RENCONTRES Audiovisuelles 2018
Permanent collections:
Le CNAP - Centre national des arts plastiques (France)