1 Gone leaving traces behind

Traces directed by Sophie Tavert Macian et Hugo Frassetto - Image source :   https://www.lesfilmsdunord.com/traces

The Carrefour du Cinéma d’Animation, held at the Forum des Images, concludes this Sunday, 2019 December 15th with a full day of wonderful screenings.

Last night, the final screening of the day featured French short films. Among them was a remarkable 13-minute animated film:

Traces France 2019

Direction, Screenplay: Sophie Tavert Macian, Hugo Frassetto

Animation: Hugo Frassetto, Hannah Letaïf, Nicolas Liguori, Clémentine Robach

Editing: Christian Cuilleron, Hugo Frassetto, Sophie Tavert Macian, Cyril Besse

Voices: Emilie Charbonnier, Claudio Dos Santos, Jérôme Fonlupt, Anny Vogel

Sound, Music: Fabrice Faltraue

Mixing: Nils Fauth

The directors wished to tell the story of the origins of the Chauvet–Pont d’Arc cave mural (http://archeologie.culture.fr/chauvet/fr), and of the artist who created it, taking certain liberties in their interpretation of these ancient traces. They knew that animation has the power to synthesize and condense an invented form of life; here, it allows us to travel through time with a sensitive realism, recreated from the artworks found in this cave. The film’s team transports us into the world of hunting and prehistoric cave art — the living world of 36,000 years ago.

When the time of the Hunt and the Trace returns, Gwel leads the group of hunters, while Karou the Tracer and his apprentice Lani set out to paint in the monumental cave.

L’apprentissage de Lani pour apprendre le dessin souvent sévère et parfois brutale. 

Source Image https://www.lesfilmsdunord.com/traces

Two techniques are used: oil painting on glass to create the scenes, and sand on glass for the elements related to drawing within the film.

These techniques offer us a world that is both austere and primitive, yet refined — powerfully transporting us back to that distant time when hunting met the essential needs of nourishment and clothing.

The hunt : Source Image http://www.studio-wasia.com/promofilms/Tra/FrTra/tra-img.html

Oil painting allows for the freedom of movement necessary to remain close to cave murals from a graphic standpoint, while also offering great flexibility in animation.

The long drying time of oil paint makes it possible to move very fine areas within the image, to shift the material itself, and to make touch-ups that bring out delicate, refined details.

Austere, raw, and refined world - source Image : http://www.studio-wasia.com/promofilms/Tra/FrTra/tra-img.html

The second technique, using black sand, allows the murals to be recreated with their grain and graphic purity. This technique, highly suited to transformations, enables the metamorphoses that animate these murals, completing our immersion in this recreated time.

This invented yet so real world gives us an exceptional short film and a remarkable tribute to the creators who came before us 36,000 years ago.

Watch on Arte TV if available in your country : The Making Of — https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/092888-000-A/making-of-traces/

Yous can also watch a trailer of the short film : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k46pd-f_NbY

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