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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Plume
Cécile Gonard
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Plume is a short animated film that draws its inspiration from the collection of poems, Plume, by Henri Michaux.Without taking any narrative principles into consideration, I have taken excerpts from poems and interpreted them graphically in a very personal way.
A poetic universe is created, based on elements related to writing and what is written—books, pages, pens, lines,words. Here the monitor may be seen as both a page and a theater stage, where persons come and go, taking a walk and meeting each other in the most absurd situations.
The sound element increases a sense of alienation and a feeling of displacement, which is already present in the image, without falling into redundancy and synchronism.
Technically the film attempts to coherently unite 2D and 3D animations.
A poetic universe is created, based on elements related to writing and what is written—books, pages, pens, lines,words. Here the monitor may be seen as both a page and a theater stage, where persons come and go, taking a walk and meeting each other in the most absurd situations.
The sound element increases a sense of alienation and a feeling of displacement, which is already present in the image, without falling into redundancy and synchronism.
Technically the film attempts to coherently unite 2D and 3D animations.
Cécile Gonard (FR) received a European Media Master of Art (EMMA) in 2D/3D animation at the Laboratoire d'Imagerie Numérique (LIN) at the Centre National de la Bande Dessinée et de l'Image (CNBDI) in Angoulěme. The film Plume, which she created as her final degree requirement, was nominated for several festivals, including the Festival d'animation d'Annecy. Cécile is currently artist in residence at LIN (CNBDI).