WIZZ director/animator Emmanuelle Walker takes time away from the budgets and deadlines of commercial work to mine subconscious symbols from her life and art for this enigmatic and unpredictable short film.

Emmanuelle Walker: “After years in the animation industry, I wanted to direct a film with no constraints. I wanted to write a story for myself. With a carte blanche and team of animators from Wizz, I seized the opportunity to write a short film. It is a film without concern of an audience, a film that I would want to watch.

“In reality, I never wrote a single word. This film was born from frames that felt natural to illustrate and animate. It was a purely visual endeavor, a puzzle of scenes.
 

“There were challenges all the way as you would expect in any animated short. We were taking something painterly, which is by its nature a 2D medium, and transforming into 3D for all the moving shots.”

 
The idea was simply to have a character go through a day akin to an obstacle course where troubles pile up, but at every pothole the character would get up and continue. This character, detached from each unpleasant moment, moves forward without hesitation.

“There were challenges all the way as you would expect in any animated short. We were taking something painterly, which is by its nature a 2D medium, and transforming into 3D for all the moving shots. But as there wasn’t a fixed delivery date, I had a lot of time to research, which is a real luxury. Also, I was lucky to work with an extremely talented and resourceful team at WIZZ to tackle those challenges!.”
 
 

 
Production: WIZZ
Director: Emmanuelle Walker
Producer: Matthieu Poirier
Production Coordinator: Akito Martel, Rebeca Hayem
Backgrounds: Basile Godard, Emmanuelle Walker
2D Animator: Vincent Albert, Lison Breton, Virgile Chereaud, Valentin Giuili, Yosi Hsu, Alexis Maurice, Marie Toury, Emmanuelle Walker
3D Animation and Modeling: Hugo Garnier
2D FX Animation: Paul Bouchart
Compositing: Guillaume Cassuto, Elliott Kajdan

Sound Supervision: La Cuisine
Sound Design/Mix: Thomas Bauduin
Additional voices: Caroline Lapinte
Sound Post-Production Means: Badje
Music: “Oxygène” Germain Gauthier – Luc Plamondon – © Notation Éditions & Plamondon Publishing – With the authorisation of Peermusic France