Fantastic Mister Fox

stop motion animation, feature film
directed by Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr Fox Productions.
Head Puppet Department: Andy Gent

I worked in the puppet Department

Trip around the world working as a set and puppet designer on various show

Grant from the national programm «Defi Jeune», grant from the town council of Paris and grant from the departmental council.

Workshop with the puppeteer Yaya Coulibali and his company Sogolon
Bamako, Mali
Conception and realisation of Mr Baba with the materials useful in the “Mali life style”.

leather, calabash, wire, rubber inner tube, Moussa’s hair…

Mr Baba

work in progress, Baba’s face, wire and calabash

At the workshop, working on traditionnal puppet

4 months later, Baba with Argentinian puppeteers, Buenos Aires

Pesta Boneka

Directed by Ria and Carla Pibe, Indonesian Government Found
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Puppet designer in collaboration with Ria and Carla

material: foam, wire, fabric

photo of the work in progress

Mens flows on Mona‘s breast

directed by Ria, Paper Moon Company
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Employed as a puppet designer

material: bamboo, float, foam, fabrics

El vengador del Riachuelo

directed by Alfredo Iriarte, Theater el Galpon de Catalinas,
Buenos Aires, Argentine
Employed as painter as well as assisting Alfredo Iriarte to make the mask in leather

L’Enfant Borne

short film directed by Pascal Mieszala, Les Enragés Production for channel Arte on TV, France.
I assisted the production designer Nelly Nahon

In the countryside in the middle of nowhere. An isolated house next to a solitary, straight road. A child is sitting on a mile stone. He is waiting. He knows a car is going to come and he knows what he will have to do.

With the production designer, we decorated, painted and rebuilt parts of the interior of an abandoned building so it could be used as the set for this film. We also changed the layout of the garden.

L’Inconnu

A short film directed by Aurelien Vernhes-Lermusiaux, Les Films Au Long Cours Production,
Employed as the production designer

Yvan is a 40 year old living an isolated life in the countryside. One rainy day, Yvan stumbles across a body which seems to have come from nowhere. Confused by this, he begins to encounter further unexplained occurances causing him to become more and more unnerved. Step by step the situation becomes irreversible.

We built the set of Yvan’s house in an abandoned house. The building itself however was in an extremely poor condition. The exterior, for example, was very over grown and undergrowth had even begun to grow inside the house and basic things such as window frames and doors were missing from the property. So even before we could begin to think about decorating and making props for Yvan’s living room, bedroom, and workshop, we had to do a significant ammount of work just to achieve a blank canvas on which we could start building the universe in which Yvan occupied.

The last three pictures (see above) are of what the house looked like before we started

Premier Voyage

Stop motion animation, short film
directed by Grégoire Sivan, Caïman Production.
Employed as a Model Maker assisting the production designer ; Nathalie Rousseau

Chloe, a 10 month old baby and her father are traveling by train. This journey is the first time both Chloe and her father have been together alone and more importantly the journey is an opportunity for Chloe’s dad to really bond with his daughter and to discover what she is really like.

I primarily made the props for this production like the luggage, some with armatures inside, however we also made several models of the train compartment, seats and hallway as well as the vending machine.

The Glooming

work in progress
Fiction based on the Radiohead song – The Glooming

This short film mixe three techniques: traditional animation, 3D animation and stop motion animation. I designed and built the set of the desert and I was involved in assisting the puppet designer to fabricate the puppet.

work about the memory

For two years I lived in Paris with my grandparents (92 and 94years old). The apartment in which they live is both the memory and testament of their life during the 40 last years. Absolutely nothing has changed or moved and everything has remained in a perfect state of stillness. I can spend hours and hours in this apartment and I find something new to discover everytime I visit.
I am particularly drawn to one particular point within this huge apartment, that being both the corridor and the stairs. This is an area in which people would walk through quite quickly. However, for my grandparents, because of their old age, it was an area they would spend more and more time crossing. It seems to me that the corridor and the stairs are growing, as if they were organics elements.
I was curious to know what memories I would keep in my mind later on (after my grandparents passed away) of their universe, of these places. Will I still hear the sound of their steps?…
I have tried to anticipate this and, using photography and models, have visualised the memory I may have later on in my life.

models

photography