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Charcoal under camera
Only one draw with charcoal change 1000 times (or more) under the eye of the camera, frame by frame.
2 movies
5 FINGERS FOR EL PUEBLO
French title : "5 doigts pour el pueblo" Duration : 5 minutes
Story:
Evocation of died of Victor Jara, young Chilean singer assassinated in a stage of Santiago…
Editing :The image begins on the face from one graded military in a stage. People wait behind a netting. They are numerous, men, women.They are supervised closely by the army. A singer is among them. Accompanied by its guitar, it sing a little melody taken again soon by all the stage. The soldiers strike the singer, crush his guitar. One cuts to him the fingers of the two hands with a shear…
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Original music: Mikko Fountain
Price of the Public, Epinay 1985
Special price of the Jury of Tarbes 1984.
IT'S THE FAULT OF THE CAT !
Duration : 9 minutesStory : A little girl dreams of having a cat, his father dream to relocate his factories, teens dreams earn money without doing anything ... And the cat?
Editing :A little girl and her father take their breakfast together She would like to have a cat, but his father refused.On the way to school a small cat is lost. The little girl is afflicted. His father organizes the vote of its board of directors to relocate its factories. a young woman receives her letter of dismissal. Two teens watch a game show. A woman wins a fortune by showing her breasts....
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Original music: : Bruce Krebs
loam animated under camera
Animation of loam in low relief under camera. The ground bread is slightly modified after each catch of sight.
THE SLAVE BEING BORN
French title : "L'escave naissant"
Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes,0 without words
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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. He thinks after one moment capacity to raise the head, the hand sends a flick then to him. It is only one slave.
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Script and direction : Bruce Krebs
Original music: J.Luc Arramy
First Price, International Festival of Varna 1988 (Bulgaria).
Dry pastel under camera.
Animation of dry pastel under camera, i.e. which I made this film in a catch. After each filmed image I modified the drawing by gomant it or by adding pastel…
THE HORTENSE'EXISTENCE
French title : "L'existence d'Hortense"
Duration : without words
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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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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
Full animation on notebooks of sketch
Drawing to chalk (Conte) on notebook in full animation.
3 movies
THE KISS OF RODIN, MEET IN FRONT
Durée : 2 minutes 53 secondes without wordsHistory : A young woman waits for her friend in front of Rodin’s kiss... But he’s not coming, why?
cutting : Hands present,in front of the camera, a shorthand notebook. The pages turn, the animation begins.A young woman waits in front of Rodin’s sculpture: "the kiss". She’s got her friend’s little message. But he’s not coming. Is it voluntary? The young woman wonders if, all in all, the sweetness of the characters is not a subliminal message...
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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
NOTEBOOK OF VOYAGE
French title : "Carnet de voyage"
Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes without words
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… so on all along film until the return of the jumbo to the La Rochelle… The notebook is closed again.
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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
Price of the First Work national festival of Marly 1984
Price of quality of the C.N.C.
TURBO ROCK
French title : "Turbo rock"
Durée : 2 minutes 30 secondes
Animation on paper plus a negative inversionStory : 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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Script and direction : Bruce Krebs
Original music: Mikko Fountain
Pictures with fractales 2D et 3D.
Fractal images are combinations of mathematical curves...
4 movies
WEEK SUITE
Duration : 9 minuts 50 without words![]()
Story : Dance film about the days of the week.
Editing : A dancer-girl-choreographer is changing on the 7 musical movements, which themselves, are based on 7 days of the week.
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Script et direction : Bruce Krebs
original Music by Bruce Krebs
FRACTAL BABY
Duration : 2 minutes 22 secondes with words, All is calculed only with fractals CGI.![]()
Topic : A little girl tries to to understand the birth of a baby.
The film was carried out with images fractales Mandelbulb3D.
Pitch : A little girl tries to communicate with her little brother who does not want to be born. She seeks all the possible arguments to give him desire for leaving.
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Script, music and direction: Bruce Krebs
Voice : Léa Reutin.
Animation fractal : Bruce Krebs
SOLO FRACTAL
Durée : 2 mn without dialogue, fractals and 3D calculations.![]()
Histoire : The boxes of a sample appear under violent shudders.
Découpage : 28 windows appear one after the other. In each box, a gesticular fractal form... A trumpet goes astray in this sampling.
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Animation fractal : Bruce Krebs
An (almost) exclusive interview...
Duration : 2 minutes 29 avec paroles. All is calculed only with fractals CGI, but no the actor...Story : A young reporter was sent on a mission without preparation...
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Editing : A young reporter come in a strange background... A massive forme meat him. The interview began. but the reporter has not prepare enough his job...
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Script and direction : Bruce Krebs
Actor : Tom Thomas Krebs.
Montage : Hugues Willy Krebs
Fractal Animation and background : Bruce Krebs.
Full animation
(American expression) total animation. The background is drawing frame after frame...
2 OR 3 THINGS WHICH I KNOW FROM BRITTANY
Duration : 5 minutes, with out word
History: Like the flight of a gull to the top of Brittany… with its generally accepted ideas and its paving stones under the beach…
Pitch : This film is presented in the form of a sequence of images symbolic systems, a little as if the camera were the eye of a gull.
Of a series of sheet of animation a drakkar appears. Its shields are transformed into menhirs. Under a dolmen a Breton house. At the interior an old sailor makes cuttings. While being unfolded, this cutting becomes a police cord…
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Script and direction : Bruce Krebs
Original music: J.Jacques Vergneau
First Special Price of the jury of Tarbes 1985
First Special Price of the jury of Marly 1985.
Coloration aléatoire
Colouring can be programmed randomly... frame by frame.
COLOR TUBA
Duration : 2 minutes 40 secondes, without word.![]()
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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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
Animation with mode pictures.
THE WOMAN PICTURE
French title : "La femme-image"
3 minutes 30 secondes. without words
Animation cello and of photographsStory: Universe of a mannequin made of flash, strass and stress...
Editing: The film is presented in the form of a succession of all small sequences of styles very different from each other. All turns around the images of mode and the photographs. The woman whom one follows throughout film finally is very tired…
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Script and direction : Mireille Boucard and Bruce Krebs
Original music: Bruce Krebs
Special price of the "Focus" public of the La Rochelle 1988
Special price of the Festival of Kilibia (Tunisia) 1989.
Pixilation.
Animation with actors... The pixilation consists in using the camera, frame by frame... "like a camera".
7 DAYS INTENSE
French title : "7 jours intenses"
Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes without words![]()
Story: God, crane driver imaginative and critical, discovers the ingratitude of the man
Editing: Locked up in his crane, God dominates the world. He creates successively all kinds of things, all kinds of animals, then finally a man with his image to play belote (but in the less fine bus he does not like to lose). Then it creates a woman to him. The man does not stop any more growing and multiplying. Does nobody want to make belote with God any more? By revenge, he invents the war, but notes his error very quickly…
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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
Price of Humour, Festival of Villeurbannes 1989
Real shoot and animation 2D et 3D.
Many technic system : 2D, Cut out and Real shoot...
Mr Bipole is'nt paying attention !
French title : "Mr Bipole est tete en l'air !"Duration : 4 minutes 47 secondes with french dialogues
9 films in parallel, animation frame by frame of the intermediate scenes.Story : Mr. bipole runs quietly after his train...
Editing : The film is presented, with the first access, like a security-screen including 9 images. The train leaves the box top on the left, Rochefort, it will appear in all the boxes successively and will finish its way in bottom on the right, Dauphine station in La Rochelle. On the other hand, Mr Bipole passes from a box to the other as if he passed from a room to an other...
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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
Animation with a camera.
The animation of camera consists in filming, image by image, an existing reason, such as for example, a mosaic, a mettalic structure, etc…
TOMORROW I LEAVE AT SEA
French title : "Demain je pars en mer"
Duration : 2 minutes 30 secondes, without words
The animation of camera consists in filming, image by image, an existing reason, such as for example, a mosaic, a mettalic structure, etc…Story: Pictorial actuation of the universe of Alain Villepigue
Editing: Alain Villepigue painted of large abstract fabrics where many reasons are reproduced with quantity deteriorations. These reasons were filmed successively, image by image and gives to some extent life to this world imagined by the artist
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Script, direction and original music: Bruce Krebs
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Bruce Krebs, director
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