The Wind in the Reeds

Dir. : Nicolas Liguori, Arnaud Demuynck / 2016 / 26 min 37 / France-Belgium-Switzerland / Prod. : Les Films du Nord

Directors

Nicolas Liguori

Paint, pastels or pencil on paper, charcoal animation, traditional animation, these are the techniques used by Nicolas Liguori in the four films he has made since he obtained his DMA diploma from ESAAT: ‘The Wind in the Reeds’ (co-directed with Arnaud Demuynck), ‘Canto alla vita’ (co-directed with Nathalie Rossetti and Turi Finocchiaro), ‘L’Histoire du Petit Paolo’ and ‘La Svedese’, two films with music by Marc Perrone. In 2015, Nicolas Liguori was among the eight film-makers chosen by the CNC and Michèle Lemieux for a residency in pin screen animation, a technique he would love to use for his next film. In parallel, Nicolas Liguori has worked as graphic author on many animated films (‘Marottes’ by Benoît Razy), production assistant (‘La Moufle’ by Clémentine Robach, ‘Kali, le petit vampire’ by Regina Pessoa and ‘Mémoire fossile’ by Anne-Laure Totaro and Arnaud Demuynck), in animation and compositing(‘Braise’, ‘Irinka et Sandrinka’, ‘L’Évasion’, ‘Chahut’, ‘Signes de vie’, ‘La Prophétie des grenouilles’)…

Arnaud Demuynck

Arnaud Demuynck is a film director, producer and scriptwriter specialised in short and medium-length animated films (and producing 5 to 6 films on average each year). Since his ‘L'Écluse’ (The Lock), a short choreographic fiction film made in 2000, he has written and directed many animated films, including a choreographic trilogy made up of ‘Signs of Life’ (2004), ‘The Shadow of the Veil’ (2006) and ‘Breakout’ (2007), followed by a poetic trilogy co-directed with Christophe Gautry (‘La Vita Nuova’, ‘The Lunatic Council’ and ‘An Interrupted Spectacle’). With ‘Under Blue Skies’, he started writing films for younger audiences, either based on traditional stories and nursery rhymes (‘The Mitten’, ‘The Giant Carrot’, ‘The Laws of the Jungle’, ‘The Runaway Biscuit’), or adapting kid's books to animation (‘Counting Sheep’, ‘Dragon Hunt’, ‘The Unicorn’, ‘Un travail de fourmis’). He is also the author of the original scripts of two 26 minute films: ‘The Scent of Carrots’ (co-directed with Rémi Durin, and attracting over 170,000 viewers) and ‘The Wind in the Reeds’ (co-directed with Nicolas Liguori), both of which have a strong focus on the musical content.

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Coproduction

La Boîte,… Productions, Nadasdy Film, Pictanovo Hauts-de-France, Shelter Prod, RTS, RTBF-OUFtivi, VRT