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Aurore

On a muggy summer afternoon, Aurore calmly contemplates the relentless rise of the waters from the refuge of her greenhouse…

  • Clément Soulmagnon
    Director
  • Clément Clément Soulmagnon
    Script by
  • Clément Soulmagnon
    Art direction
  • Camille Principiano
    Producer
  • Stella Ramsden
    Producer
  • Brunch Studio
    Animation
  • Emilie Revert
    Production coordination
  • Brice Smith
    Production coordination
  • Carole Guignard
    Production assistant
  • Louise Thiolon
    Original music
  • Elie Martens
    Layout and lead animation
  • Camille Sallan
    animation
  • Léo Schweitzer
    animation
  • Leyla Kaddoura
    animation
  • Théo Tran Ngoc
    animation
  • Vincent Albert
    animation
  • Clément Soulmagnon
    animation
  • Ambre Decruyenaere
    Background Art
  • Clément Soulmagnon
    Background Art
  • Paul Jousselin
    Sound design, edit and mix
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Aurore
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 20, 2021
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Clément Soulmagnon

Clément Soulmagnon graduated from Supinfocom in 2008. His graduation short Gary was internationally acclaimed and received multiple awards. Clément then founded Flying-V studio and directed commissioned films for many years. Clément's work has received many accolades, most recently the gold prize at the Art Director Club Awards.
In 2019, Clément joined Eddy as a solo director. Clément is also an accomplished illustrator, regularly working for prestigious clients such as Jean-Paul Gaultier or The New Yorker.
As both an illustrator and an animation director, he likes to appropriate styles and transform them, leading to beautiful and surprising creations. He plays with all the animation techniques to tell stories and develop innovative visuals, from motion design to realistic 3D.
Very curious and versatile, he enjoys exploring and creating new styles and finding a unique and singular way to tell each story.
Clément is currently working on his next short film, whose artistic direction will be close to that of Aurore.

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Director Statement

‘Ever since I was little, I dreamt of various ends of the world, but it never made me sad. I found it inspiring and relaxing. This is the feeling I wanted to put across in Aurore.
It's an atmospheric film. I wanted to make the end of the world seem beautiful, aesthetic. I like paradoxes. The contrast between the gentle imagery and the tragedy of the situation has a strangely calming effect.
I wanted to use this film to explore change, rupture. The passage from one time, one era, one state of being to another.
More than the end of the world, this film is about the end of a world; the personal conception each of us has of a World. It is about metamorphosis.
Aurore might be our young heroine's first name, or perhaps the title signals the start of a new day, of a new World.
I wanted the film to be open to interpretation. I thought a lot about the last shot, choosing to end on an opening, a question mark.’
- Clément Soulmagnon