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MUSICAL MOVIES
           Here various styles :

Symphonic orchestra

"The sea" of Debussy      mouvements 1 et 3

Barrel organ

Flute and cello

Cello

Cello

piano

Combo Jazz

Quintet de Jazz

Rock'n roll

Free Jazz




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         "La mer" of Claude Debussy
Movements 1 et 3.





 




TRANSATLANTIC SHIP

French title : "Transatlantique"

Duration : 18 minutes. Full animation, animation on paper, cut out paper animation and animation of charcoal under camera.

Story: "the Sea" of Claude Debussy is the sound support of the intrigue: a history of love, sea and death

Editing: A deck chair, in the early morning...
In a cabin, a young woman awakes. His/her companion of bed already rose. She leaves to research her companion by surveying the gangways. With the turning of a footbridge, the young woman discovers her companion deadened on a long chair. A leaning woman above him, seems to embrace it. The image becomes fuzzy. Is this still the effect of the alcohol of yesterday evening? She leans with the rail and fall to water...

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Scenario and realization: Bruce Krebs
Music: "sea" of Claude Debussy (movement I and III). No sound effects.

  • Official selection of the Festival of Cannes 1987
  • Great Price of the Festival of the short film of Grenoble 1987
  • Great Price animation, Festival of the short film of Albi 1987
  • Great Price "short film" of the Festival of romantic film of Cabourg 1988
  • Great Price "short film" of the Festival of Imaginary of Clermont Ferrand 1988
  • Price of the animation of the Festival of Villeurbanne 1987
  • First Mention of the jury and First Mention of the public of the Festival "Music and Cinema" of Besancon 1987
  • Price of quality of the C.N.
  • Special price of the jury of the International Festival of the Cinema of Animation of Ottawa 1988





 


Orgue de Barbarie




NOTEBOOK OF VOYAGE
French title :
"Carnet de voyage"
Drawing to chalk (Conte) on notebook in full animation.

Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes without words. Full animation on notebooks of sketch

Story: Sketch of voyage during a stay in Quebec. Cutting was built with the liking of the meetings…

Editing: Hands present, in front of the camera, a notebook shorthand writing. The first sketch represents a Jumbo jet which beats wings. Image by image, this image will be transformed into a succession of outstanding images of the stay in Quebec. The jumbo will become successively a seal, a helmet of footballer, a hamburger, a truck, a hockeyor…

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Scenario, realization and original music: Bruce Krebs

Price of the First Work national festival of Marly 1984
Price of quality of the C.N.C.





 


symphonic Orchestra




ZEBRAS
French title :
" Zebres "

Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes, Animation cello, without words.


Topic : Purely musical movie around a herd of zebras

Pitch : First zebras appear in a furtive way through the trees of a wood. In the incipient paddle, we hardly distinguish them. The herd, very significant, leaves wood. The decoration will never be seen but in Chinese shade.
A younger animal is distinguished. The always run herd passes beside a water point whose the young zebra stops. It starts to be refreshed, under the avid glance of two black panthers...

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Scenario, music and realization: Bruce Krebs





 


Flute and cello




LUNCH ON GRASS
French title : "Dejeuner sur l'herbe"
Duration : 3 minuts 01, without words Cut out paper animation computer-assisted



Story: Hard hard to be made a place with the sun...

Synopsis: It is a purely abstract film carried out starting from forms drawn in perpetual transformations. Every six seconds, the assembly of these forms evokes a naked woman in grass... But a balloon of foot comes to break the charm of this picnic...

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Scenario, music and realization: Bruce Krebs





 

       Cello alone
2 movies


WEEK SUITE

Durée :
9 minutes 50, without words
Suite for Cello solo (in 7 movements) - Live action and animation fractals.

Story : A dancer-girl-choreographer is changing on the 7 musical movements, which themselves, are based on 7 days of the week.

Editing : 7 movements are separated by musical scores. Pages turn between each movement.

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Dance and Choreography : Lucie Robier
Script et direction : Bruce Krebs
original Music by Bruce Krebs







THE SLAVE BEING BORN
French title :
"L'escave naissant"

Duration : 2 minutes 30, without words Animation of loam in low relief under camera. The ground bread is slightly modified after each catch of sight. The film was turned in only one catch of during five days consecutive…

Story: Ground is born a slave... this film took as a starting point "the waking up slave" of Michel Ange


Editing: A clay surface becomes deformed under the effect of the work of an invisible sculptor. Soon the sculpture of a man appears. The man seems to awake. He stretches himself, looks at on the right then on the left. He seems to want to act, when an enormous hand forces it to be squatted...

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Scenario and realization: Bruce Krebs
Original music: J.Luc Arramy


First Price, International Festival of Varna 1988 (Bulgaria).






 

       Piano

THE LIVING MODEL WORKSHOP

Duration : 2 minutes 50, without words. Animation on paper and cello.

Story: In a room of drawing poses an alive model. Each one with its style seeks to give again life with its model… for the pleasure...

Pitch : A woman enters a room of drawing. She is accomodated by the professor. The pupils are ready. The woman poses naked. All the sequences which all follow are different from to each other according to the esthetics of each draughtsman present…

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Scenario, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs







       Combo Jazz

COLOR TUBA
French title :
" Couleur Tuba "
Duration : 2 minutes 40 secondes, without words. Animation on cello

Story: A player of Tuba penetrates in one limps of Jazz, and discovers a whole world of color and swing…

Pitch : It is a purely graphic film. The timing of posting of the images takes account of the duration of the notes of the music. The images mix and the colors change according to "the interprenetration of objects". A small catch, charged with an enormous tuba, enters one limps of jazz…

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Scenario, realization and original music: Bruce Krebs







       Quintet de Jazz

JAG JAZZ

Duration : 3 minutes 30 secondes cinema in catch of real sight and scraping on film

Pitch : Vexations of a saxophonist in full form, plunged in a pastiche of series B.

Synopsis : This evening, the swing was fantastic! The orchestra vibrated. Environment was good... Too bad... But of the types entered and very ransacked with blow of machine-gun! Panics in limps !...


Scenario, realization and music: Bruce Krebs

Special price of the public "Focus" of La Rochelle 1988
Special price of the Kilibia Festival (Tunisia) 1989.


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       Rock'n roll

TURBO ROCK
French title : "Turbo rock"

Durée : 2 minutes 30 Animation on paper plus a negative inversion
Drawing designed into negative and reversed in laboratory.

Story: A rock' N roll of scene black and white, between gribouillage and graffiti…

Editing: The image is presented in the form of a clip in black and white. More exactly in shade and light. Alternated with the singer and his group, the image present of the dancers acrobats, a double bass player who transforms themselves into rider of race, a dancer as a puppet, etc...

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Scenario and realization: Bruce Krebs
Original music: Mikko Fountain






       Free Jazz

DON'T IRRITATE YOU EMILE!

French title :
" Ne t'enerve pas Emile ! "
Duration : 4 minutes, animation cello

Story: The assembly of the insane projectionnist...

Editing: Two old people come to sit down in a movie theater. Projection has neither tail nor head. Each scene does not have any relationship with the preceding one, nor with the following one…

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Scenario and realization: Bruce Krebs









       Orpheon




THE HORTENSE'EXISTENCE

French title :
"L'existence d'Hortense"
Durée : 2 minutes 30, without words. Animation of pastel under camera.

Story: 120 seconds to summarize 80 years...

Editing: This film presents a face of baby who ages regularly, passing by all the ages, of youth to old age, without clash. The face, drawing with the pastel, do not move absolutely. It ages only by fixing the witness calmly…

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Scenario, realization and original music: Bruce Krebs





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