Private Project

Omi-Maiko Station

On the night of june 21st 2016, a man finds a memory card by a cycle track. Two days later, he learns that a girl from his town was missing. He decides to search for her.

  • Jean Gegout
    Director
  • Jean Gégout
    Writer
  • Christian Phaure
    Mixing
  • Frederic Mocellin
    Colours calibration
  • Jean Gegout
    Images, Sound & Music, Editing, Voice
  • Marion Lacourt
    Voice
  • Itsuki Kaito
    Voice
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Documentary, Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    23 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Language:
    French, Japanese
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
  • Annecy International Animation Film Festival
    Annecy
    France
    June 13, 2022
    World Premiere
    Graduation Film Competition
  • Cannes Indie Shorts Awards
    Cannes
    France
    October 17, 2022
    Best Experimental Short
  • Venezia Shorts
    Venezia
    Italy
    August 25, 2022
    Italy
    Best Editing
  • T-short Animated Film Festival

    March 10, 2022
  • Du Grain à Démoudre
    Le Havre
    France
    November 19, 2022
  • INTERNATIONAL FILMSCHOOL FESTIVAL TETOUAN
    Tetouan
    Morocco
    November 7, 2022
  • McMinnville Short Film Festival (MSFF)
    McMinnville
    United States
    February 23, 2023
    North America
  • Kalakari FilmFest
    Dewas
    India
    March 18, 2023
  • Prix "Emergence" / SCAM
    Paris
    France
    December 16, 2022
    Prix Emergence
  • Friche Festival
    Tours
    France
    September 1, 2023
Director Biography - Jean Gegout

Jean Gégout is born in 1994 in Nancy (France). He's an visual artist and a filmmaker graduated in the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris (ENSAD).

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Director Statement

Through the traditional and digital mediums of images, his work explores obsessively different types of marginalities within popular cultures, both artistic and spiritual currents.

OMI-MAIKO STATION :
This movie is a fiction in the form of an audio diary. As we follow the narrator : “the investigator” - who is convinced the memory card belongs to the missing girl - we chronologically scroll up the videos that are stored on the DCIM folder of the card.
Not only do they show the outskirts of the town and the suburban houses where she was last seen, but we also see places similar to those found in Japan, near the small Omi-Maïko station, by the lake Biwa, not far from Kyoto.