Business Meeting

Just another business meeting, like any other business meeting. Yes, I believe this is a good description of the film. What do you think?

  • Guy Charnaux
    Director
    A Man Called Man, The Poet of Horrible Things
  • Rafael Sperling
    Original text
    A Man Called Man, The Poet of Horrible Things
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Comedy
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 14, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    English
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.90:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 2018 Anima Mundi
    Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    July 23, 2018
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2018 Linoleum Animation Festival
    Kiev
    Ukraine
    Official Selection
  • 2018 Videomedeja
    Novi Sad
    Serbia
    European Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 2018 Animofest
    Bratislava
    Slovenia
    Official Selection
  • 2018 Art All Night - Trenton: Annual Film Festival
    Trenton
    United States
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Guy Charnaux

Guy Charnaux was born on April 7th 1990 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the age of nineteen, Guy initiated his Digital Media Design studies at PUC-Rio, where he took his first steps in animation with the help of Marcos Magalhães, doing freelance work and commissioned jobs. On 2015, he graduated from Vancouver Film School's Classical Animation program. His films have been screened at more than sixty different festivals in over thirty countries, including distinguished Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Annecy and Anima Mundi and on TV channels from France, Germany and Brazil as well.

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Director Statement

I wanted to express how I feel about not only the business world but meetings in general, where there’s lots of speaking and not much saying. It all started with Rafael Sperling’s short story: that was the main source of inspiration for all the abstraction and nonsense humor. As I read the story, I started sketching the characters as I imagined them, with an increasingly bizarre and surreal approach, sinking into complete nonsense at the end. I chose to do this film in the medium that’s most natural to me: digital drawing, with an excessively simple, pencil-like visual style, for it is a short, fast-paced film and I had no desire of losing or distracting the spectator with unnecessary details, going straight to the point instead.