Genius Loci

France
2019
Animation
16 min.

 

Director | Adrien Mérigeau
Script | Adrien Mérigeau and Nicolas Pleskof
Director of photography | Adrien Mérigeau and Brecht Evans
Editing 
| Céline Devaux, Camille Chao, Lisa Matuszak, Camille Monnier, Hefang Wei, Chenghua Yang, Hippolyte Cupillard, Vaïana Gauthier, Rui Chang, Alan Holly
Sound | Julien Rabin, Laurent Sassi
Composer | Théo Mérigeau, Lê Quan Ninh
Producer | Amaury Ovise
Production company | Kazak Productions

 

One night, Reine, a young loner, sees within the urban chaos a mystical oneness that seems alive, like some sort of guide

 

About the director:

After studying animation in the French animation school EMCA from 2001 to 2004, Adrien Merigeau first worked in Cartoon Saloon in Ireland as Background Supervisor on the Oscar nominated feature film The Secret of Kells by Tomm Moore. The he directed his first short film Old Fangs and worked as Art Director on Cartoon Saloon’s second Oscar nominated film Song of the Sea by Tomm Moore. Adrien moved back to France after and started to work with Kazak Poductions on his short film Genius Loci.