Jeremy Clapin | 13 mins | France

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely 91cms from himself… If he wants to open a door, sit on a chair, or pick up the phone, from now on he just has to do so from 91 centimetres away.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
7:00 PM     Mon, Oct 18, 2010
The Bell House

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Director | Jérémy Clapin
Screenplay | Jérémy Clapin, with rewrite coordination by Stéphane Piera
3D | Loli Irala, Jean-François Sarazin, Raphaël Bot-Gartner
Animation | Jérémy Clapin, Peggy Portal, Stéphane Piera
Sound | Marc Piera – Comportements Sonores
Picture Edit | Jérémy Clapin
Music Composer | Nicolas Martin
Production | Dark Prince

DIRECTOR’S BIO
Born in Paris in 1974, Jeremy CLAPIN graduated from the Arts Décoratifs school of Paris in 1999. Since then, he has worked in several areas : as a graphic artist, as an illustrator for the press and various publishing houses, and as an independent director working in adverts. In 2004, he directed his first animated short film, A Backbone Tale (Une histoire vertébrale) which was featured in over 60 festivals worldwide, and won more than 15 prizes. Skhizein is his second film; released in March 2008, it has already won over 50 awards, including at Cannes, Annecy and Clermont Ferrand (France), Palm Springs, Ann Arbor and Brooklyn (USA), Leeds, Bristol Encounters and BAF (UK) and Leipzig, Dresden and Trickfilm Stuttgart (Germany).