Original title:  Je criais contre la vie. Ou pour elle

director, script, graphics, editing: Vergine Keaton
animation and compositing: Anna Khmelevskaya
music: Vale Poher
producer: Pascaline Saillant

In the forest, the herd of deer turns against the hound dogs that have been chasing them so far. From this unusual chase, new landscapes arise from the ground. This collage drama was made after an idea from a 19th century engraving.

 

Awards:

• Jury diploma (Open Cinema, Saint Petersburg 2009)
• Grand Prix non-narrative short (Holland Animation Film Festival 2009)
• Best Original Music (International Short Film Festival Clermont Ferrand 2010)
• Diploma of Merit (Tampere Film Festival 2010)
• Best Soundtrack (Athens Animfest 2010)
• Special Mention (Anim’est International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest 2010)
• Best Short Film (International Film Festival Cine-Jeune de l’Aisne, Saint Quentin 2010)
• Prize of the Press (Festival national de cinéma d'animation, Bruz 2010)
• Emile Raynaud Award given by the members of AFCA -Association française du cinéma d'animation (Festival national de cinéma d'animation, Bruz 2010)

Selected festivals:

Un festival c’est trop court, Nice; International Animated Film Festival Annecy; Cannes Film Festival (ACID selection); Festival Silhouette, Paris; Sarajevo Film Festival (New Currents selection); 25 FPS International Experimental Film Festival, Zagreb; Imago Film Festival, Fundao; Festival Cinéssonne; Open Cinéma St Petersbourg; Cinéssonne – European Film Festival; Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal; Bolzano Short Film Festival; Animated Dreams Tallin; Holland Animation Film Festival; I Castelli Animati; Animateka, Ljubljana, Stuttgarter Filmwinter; International Short Film Festival Clermont Ferrand, Premiers Plans, Angers; Tampere Film Festival; International Film Festival Breda; Mecal International Short Film Festival; Biennale internationale de l’image, Nancy; Monstra, Lisbon; Animabasauri, Bilbao; Animafest Zagreb; Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo; Era New Horizons, Wroclaw; Expresion en Corto, Mexico; Int'l Animation Festival Hiroshima; London Int'l Animation Festival;Les Instants Vidéo, Marseille; Ljubljana Int'l Film Festival; Festival on Wheels, Turkey; Bradford Int'l Film Festival; Dortmund/Cologne In't Women's Film Festival; Mediawave, Gyor; World Festival of Animated Film Varna; AniFest Rozafa; GIRAF Calgary

Vergine Keaton (1981) studied graphic design and cinema and works today as a freelance illustrator and director. She draws for press, musical productions and theatre. In 2008, she joined 25 Films production and made her first short film  “I was crying out at life. Or for it”.