compétition labo

Interview with Boyoung Kim, director of A Guitar in the Bucket What is your link to guitars and to music?I’m very interested in sound and like music very much. If I hadn’t become an animation director, I think I might have become a musician. The reason I used a music instrument in this project was that I needed a tool that could express […]

Watch the interview with the German filmmaker Gerhard Funk about his short film A Goat’s Spell selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L2 programme).

Watch the interview with the Belgian filmmaker Olivier van Malderghem about his short film Au circuit selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L3 programme).

Interview with Nieto, director of Swallow the Universe How have you heard of Daichi’s work?I was in Japan shooting a documentary about pets of Tokyo. I visited a club of old ladies with pets “love pets of Tokyo” there I met this estrange old woman who wanted to join the club, she has not a pet, but she has a grandson she considers […]

Interview with Leonardo Martinelli, director of Fantasma Neon [Neon Phantom] What is your link to musicals and how did you come up with the idea of making Fantasma Neon a musical?I believe Brazil has some of the best composers in the world. The use of music in national cinema has always been keen, but musical cinema itself has never had many resources to […]

Interview with Leonid Shmelkov, director of Ogurtsy [Cucumbers] Why were you interested in portraying a photographer from the world of fashion and luxury?For me it wasn’t important if it is specifically a photographer, or a film director, or a concept artist. I needed just someone from popular world, who works and depends on this world. I have several friends who are professionally involved […]

Interview with Diana Cam Van Nguyen, director of Love, Dad How much is Love, Dad autobiographical?A lot. It’s my story, my voice, my handwriting. How did you work on the letters’ incorporation to the animation? Are they original letters? Did you film yourself for the female character or is it an actress?Yes, the letters are the original ones. And I know from the […]

Interview with Guillaume Fournier, Samuel Matteau and Yannick Nolin, directors of Belle River How interested are you in the issue of climate change and do you plan on making more films on this topic?The issue of climate change concerns all three of us, and we expect it will be part of our future work at different levels. Given the upcoming upheavals, it will […]

Watch the interview with the Mexican filmmaker Gabriel González Acosta about his short film Concertina selected in the 2022 Lab Competition (L5 programme).

Watch the interview with the American filmmaker Bill Morrison about his short film Her Violet Kiss selected in the 2022 Lab Competition.