37th edition
18-26 january 2025

12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still

Magali Charrier

Image 12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still
United Kingdom
2010 Fiction 8 min
12 Sketches on the Impossibility of Being Still is a collection of experiments in animation and editing exploring the spaces where nothing happens : the limital zone that exists between you and me, between here and there, sound and silence, movement and stillness.
With : Selina Papoutseli, Tom Lyall
Screenplay : Magali Charrier
Image : Fran Weston
Sound : Magali Charrier
Music : Heather Truesdall, Natasha Zielazinski
Production : Royal College of Art
Magali Charrier originally trained at Les Beaux-Arts de Montpellier, France, where she specialised in video and experimental animation. When she moved in England in 1997, she went on to gain a 1st Class BA Honors Degree in Choreography & Visual Arts at the University of Brighton. Her work consists in implementing loose narrative with a variety of medium such as : animation, dance, graphic text, voice-over and sound design. Her award-winning work includes commissions from Channel 4, BBC and English National Opera.