Normal Planet

France2026animated30'Short film competition

Come and visit the exhibition; make yourselves at home within the walls of this virtual museum. It is an infinite space where anyone can become someone else by taking on the form of any avatar they choose. A frog will check your safety upon entry, and once inside, you will meet anime heroines, a dog, a penguin or a mysterious green head. In this psychedelic animated documentary, anything is possible. We peek behind the scenes of human imagination and discover the intimate experience of engaging with art, including its digital form. It is an unconventional journey into a world where technology meets the need for beauty, and the boundary between the viewer and the exhibit is completely blurred.

directed by: Ekiem Barbier
Born in 1993 in Toulouse. He is an author, filmmaker and musician. He graduated from the Montpellier Fine Arts School in 2017 where he directed two documentary films: 'Anent', shot in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and 'Marlowe Drive' in the world of online video games. He is interested in anthropology through the prism of the digital. Ekiem lives in Marseille.
Guilhem Causse
Born in Narbonne in 1993. He got his Master Degree in Plastic expression in 2017 at the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier, where he directed the documentary 'Marlowe Drive' and developed his research around the film 'Solaris', which he declined in a series of video and sound works, in the form of hypnotic and immersive installations.
Quentin L'helgoualc'h
Born in Lyon in 1992. He got a Master degree in Plastic expression at the School of Fine Arts of Montpellier in 2017, year in which he directed the documentary 'Marlowe Drive'. In 2019, he directs 'Between Empty Thing's and 'Cristaux Liquides'. In 2021, he enters the Frenoy, where he shoots a first fiction film 'Les Neiges électriques'.
cinematography: Quentin L'helgoualc'h
script: Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
animated by: Ekiem Barbier & Guilhem Causse
music: Ekiem Barbier
sound: Mathieu Farnarier
editing: Ekiem Barbier, Quentin L'helgoualc'h
production: Boris Garavini (Les Films Invisibles)
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