37th edition
18-26 january 2025
Image Ecuador
France
2009 Fiction 15 min
M. is about to leave. Leave. A jump into the void. Writing his first notes in his travel diary, the future book still filled with emptiness, M. withdraws from the city, from his life, from the life of others. He is already caught up in his journey. On board the freighter Boskoop time draws out and the endless ocean creates imaginary dreams and visions.
Screenplay : Estelle Journoud (d'après Ecuador de Henri Michaux)
Editing : Jean-Paul Rossard
Music : Thomas Terrien
Production : La Fabrique Production, Maïthé Laurent // Rue de la Fabrique, 30440, Saint-Laurent le Minier, France // Tel : +33 (0)4 67 73 63 57 // Email : maithe@la-fabrique.com
Estelle Journoud was born in 1976 and studied sociology, specialising in image and communication. After a masters and a DEA, she experimented in writing and camerawork for documentaries and short dramas before making Dokonan? Acid Mothers Temple on Tour in USA avec Audrey Gineset in 2003. Ecuador is her first animated film. Benoît Audé was born in 1980. After an early interest in textile art while studying at ESAAT in Roubaix, he went on to the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux and before getting a Masters in applied arts in 2005. Among other techniques, he uses silkscreen printing, engraving and illustration. Ecuador, for which he did the graphic creation and which he co-directed, is his first animated short.