"Camille"
Short film in animated sculpture
Created/animated sculpture: Emilie Tolot
Music: Nicolas Peiron
Live footage shot by: François De la Patellière
Duration: 19 minutes
Technique: Animated stop-motion sculpture (modeling clay)
"With Camille, I sought to make sculpture a cinematic language, where the material comes to life frame by frame. Without dialogue, carried by music and sounds, the film explores creation, control, memory, memento mori, the fragility of existence and the quest for freedom. Entirely self-produced, it is the result of several years of work."
Emilie Tolot
Teaser
Music: Walid Jebabli / Live footage from the studio: François de la Patellière
Pitch
One night, under the gaze of the moon, in a sculptor's studio, a small clay figure, Camille, comes to life.
For a few hours, the moon offers her movement and freedom.
At the heart of the block of clay from which she emerged lies a world in perpetual metamorphosis, populated by a multitude of characters. Camille ventures into it, seeking to break free from the forces that shape her in order to forge her own path.
But as the night passes, her power weakens. At dawn, the earth gradually dries out, and Camille inexorably freezes into the matter that gave birth to her.
Statement of intent
Camille explores the notions of power, manipulation and freedom through matter and movement.
The film explores creation and the female body in an enclosed space, where the artistic gesture shapes as much as it constrains, and where matter retains traces.
Through animated sculpture, the film reveals a presence in the making: each image, each imprint accompanies a body searching for its form, its breath, its momentum. Matter resists, transforms, and makes visible the tension between movement and control.
Echoing the figure of Camille Claudel and other trajectories of women artists, Camille offers a cinematic and plastic experience, driven by matter, time and gesture.
Making-of
In the workshop, the final images are taking shape:
Nearly 20,000 completed!
Artistic landmarks :
The journey of Camille Claudel – her work as much as her destiny as a female artist – marked
through control and confinement -, the first films of the Lumière brothers, Alice Guy and Georges Méliès, the engravings of Gustave Doré, the aesthetics of German expressionism, as well as the myths of Prometheus and the Golem.
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