Vincent Gilot

Picha's irreverent style has left a mark on 70s and 80s animation cinema. But where is he now? And how should we best approach his work as an iconoclastic cartoonist, animated film and tv series director and painter who once embodied a certain idea of outrageousness and subversion?

An animated short that paints an eerie portrait of a lone miner trapped underground after a grisou (gas) explosion. The film unfolds through stark, woodcut-style imagery and a meticulous soundscape—boots echo, water drips, insects clatter.

Children and animals deform, are transformed and are bound to illustrate the feeling that we can have of its body and the space that it occupies, under the other people’s opinion or the own eyes.

The Little red riding hood’s tale told on stage, under the spotlight and through the rythm of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski’s music.

This is a story of love seen from a square, in which a couple gets united, separated and rearranged again. A special kind of puzzle.

A narrated poem, a love letter from the machine to the human, a story about distances.

Bobel, a poisonous little mushroom, dreams of becoming a cook at his village market. But the prejudices of the villagers will make his task difficult.

In a town where supernatural beings are part of everyday life, two roommates face a recurring problem: their house spirit was devoured by an unknown creature overnight. They go on their way to find a replacement spirit and a solution to their pest problem.

Two people spend a evening on the beach. After the sunset, one of them disappears, leaving a little black box where they once stood. The other picks up the box and search for a place to leave it.

Manon, 11, is reaching the end of her childhood and notices the changes taking place, now within herself, now within her family.