Mémoire fossile
A-L. Totaro, A. Demuynck
350 million years separate the deafening cry of an iguanodon caught in a trap in the marshes and the games of a little boy in the shadow of the pit-head of a mining town. With the help of the stethoscope of the doctor who has come to examine his grandfather, the boy embarks on an audio-visual journey that will transport him through time to when the mines were in full swing...
Screenplay : Arnaud Demuynck
Animation : Anne-Laure Totaro, Nicolas Liguori
Music : Falter Bramnk
Création sonore : Falter Bramnk
Editing : Nicolas Liguori
Animation : Anne-Laure Totaro, Nicolas Liguori
Music : Falter Bramnk
Création sonore : Falter Bramnk
Editing : Nicolas Liguori
Production : Les Films du Nord, Digit Anima, La Boîte, ...Productions, Suivez mon regard, CRRAV, ASBL Hainaut Cinéma
Trained in animation at ESAAT (Roubaix) then at La Poudrière (Valence), Anne-Laure Totaro worked as an inbetweener on Jacques-Rémy Girerd's features (La Prophétie des grenouilles/Raining Cats and Frogs and Mia et le Migou/Mia and the Magoo). Assistant director on the short L'ombre des choses, she then went on to make the animated charcoal film Le Bouillon (2005). She was an animator on Nicolas Ligouri's La Svedese (which was presented in Premiers Plans in 2009), graphic designer and co-director of Mémoire fossile, drawn in charcoal after a screenplay by Arnaud Demuynck. After writing several original screenplays, Arnaud Demuynck went into directing in 2000 with L'Écluse. In 2001, he decided to work solely in animation and made his "choreographic trilogy" (Signes de vie, À l'ombre du voile and L'Évasion). While continuing his career as a producer of short films, he started, in 2007, a collection inspired by 19th century poets. In 2008 he co-wrote a first feature, Le Vilain Petit Chartreux, with the director Fabrice Luang-Vija. He also created www.toondra.com with Luang-Vija, the first internet site totally dedicated to on-line sales of animated shorts.