THE MUSHPIT
7 MIN - ANIMATION MULTIMEDIA - 2024
CFF 2024 - BEST ART DIRECTION
Jimmy G. Fungus is a young mushroom stuck in the lowest pit of existence: the Mushpit, a place where everyone he loved met their demise, full of creeps, and where the light never reaches. After another night of heavy drinking in a bar, a stranger calls him out on his cowardice and the dream he gave up on, due to the loss of a dear friend and his grief. This confrontation hits jimmy deeply, triggering a trippy existential crisis where he meet his decisded friend telling him to realize his dream. Once awaken from this mental journey, Jimmy decides to leave the mushpit to pursue his dream of reaching the surface and seeing the flowers there.
The Mushpit is a multimedia animated short movie, mixing animation techniques, comedy, drama, classic narration and experimentation. The short explores the themes of grief and self realisation in an immersive universe inspired from nature and forest.
CFF 2024 – Best Art Direction (…) what’s next ??
THE CLOCK
IS TICKING
4 MIN 04 S- ANIMATION MULTIMEDIA - 2023
OIAF 2023 - FANTASIA - FCVQ
Angst grows stronger as Emily questions her purpose in a waiting room, surrounded by strangers with a similar destiny. At the sight of a teddy bear sitting alone on a chair, Emily can’t help but identify with the plushie. She dives deep into her subconscious, reliving her past and expanding into a potential future doomed to destruction. Time doesn’t wait, and the clock keeps ticking. Faced with this realization, Emily snaps out of
her dream, deeply changed. She grabs the plushie and escapes the waiting room in a hysterical demonstration of freedom. Emily will no longer wait !
The Clock is Ticking transports its audience into a collage of creative multimedia animation. This short animated film explores the passage of time.
OIAF, Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Fantasia, ReAnimania, CFF, Animex Screen, Animaze, Los Angeles Animation Festival, Animated Expressions Expo, Animaji Festival, Motion Pictures International Film Festival, Hallucinea Film Festival, kalakari film fest
LA GRANDE BATAILLE DU TOURNESOL DES TEMPS MODERNE
1 MIN 29 S- 2D ANIMATION - 2023
CO-DIRECTED WITH JUSTIN LEMAY
La grande bataille du tournesol des temps modernes est un court métrage inspiré de la musique des parachutistes de l’armée française. Ce film explore les thèmes des traumatismes et des horreurs de la guerre mais également de la destruction exponentielle de notre environnement.
NEVER SHOWN, FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
THE RIVER
1 MIN 29 S- 2D ANIMATION - 2023
Time and life flows unilaterally, like a river. As humans, we are all its passengers, carried away by its current. “The River” is a 2D animated film that tells the story of a man in the last moments of his life. Aboard his paper boat, we will accompany this person throughout his melancholy crossing, between beauty and horror, joy and loneliness, life and death.
CFF 2022, HALLUCINEA SPECIAL MENTION, ANIMAZE MONTREAL 2023