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Orchid in a frenzy

Paris, 1889, a young woman who suffers from a neurological disease is admitted to the Salpêtrière hospital. Her illness is called the dance of Saint-Vitus and provokes spasms and uncontrolled movements. She discovered the dance during the famous Madwoman’s ball which takes places once a year in the establishment, and found in this art a way to heal herself differently.

  • Elisa Andrade Fonseca
    Director
  • Elisa Andrade Fonseca
    Writer
  • École Émile Cohl
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    L'Orchidée en délire
  • Project Type:
    Animation
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - École Émile Cohl
  • Filmschoolfest Munich
    Munich
    Germany
    November 22, 2024
    official selection
  • Festival Court'échelle
    Paris
    France
    May 30, 2024
    French premiere
    official selection
  • Festival du 1er court métrage
    Pontault-Combault
    France
    October 15, 2024
    official selection
  • Chaniartoon
    Chania
    Greece
    September 20, 2024
    world premiere
    official selection
  • Colifee international film festival
    Rome
    Italy
    December 5, 2024
    official selection
  • Festival Tout Court
    Bologna
    Italy
    March 15, 2025
    screening event
Director Biography - Elisa Andrade Fonseca

Passionate about drawing since she was young, Elisa wanted to make movies in middle school, and it has never changed since. To specialize in Fine Arts after graduation, she chose to do an Arts and Design baccalaureate diploma and then joined École Émile Cohl in Lyon.

Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts in 2021, she specialize in animation and she directed with a small team, the short films Mauvaise Récolte for the Tiji channel and The Right Place for the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 MIFA. She likes exploring various traditional or digital technics in animation and therefore, in her graduation film she tested something different: oil painting animated on glass. The story is freely inspired by the life of the dancer Jane Avril in the late 19th century. She would like to continue experimenting in as many ways as possible to tell stories with varied artistic direction. Directors and films that inspire her are both animated films and live action films. For her graduation project, her references were mainly films in animated painting or puppets such as The bigger picture by Daisy Jacobs, À l’horizon by Isabela Bartosik or even Florence Miailhe’s short films.

She graduated with a master’s degree in animation in January 2024.

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