Jérémy Clapin

Jérémy Clapin 2019

Jérémy Clapin (born February 13, 1974 in Paris ) is a French animator and film director .

Life

Clapin studied animation and illustration at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris until 1999 , where he worked as a tennis teacher alongside his studies. After completing his studies, which it is unusual for him not to complete an animation film, he initially worked as an illustrator and animator.

In 2004 he released his first short animation film Une histoire vertébrale , a love story without words, in which a man and a woman with unusually twisted torsos come together indirectly . Clapin had already drawn the first sketches for the film during his student days; the actual work on the film took around two years to complete. Une histoire vertébrale , animated in 3D, was nominated for a Cristal d'Annecy of the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 2005. At the Dresden Film Festival he won the main prize in the International Animation Competition and was awarded the special jury prize at the Hiroshima Kokusai Animation Festival .

Clapin's second short film, Beside the Track , was released in 2008. It deals with the subject of schizophrenia using a man who believes he has been hit by a meteorite and is now always 91 centimeters from him. The film was animated on the computer using 3ds Max and After Effects , with Clapin not only acting as director and screenwriter, but also as an animator. In addition to the track was shown at numerous festivals and was nominated for a César as best short film. In 2009 Clapin was a member of the short film jury of the Festival du Film Francophone de Namur and was a member of the jury of the Festival d'Animation Annecy in 2010.

Various commercials followed, including for Citroën and Roger Dubuis , and a music video for the title Innocent by the Hundred Waters group, before Clapin made his third short animated film, Das Duckmonster, in 2012 . For the first time, Clapin used the free software Blender for animation . In The Duck Monster , the story focuses again on an unusual character, this time a deformed duck discovered by a boy who goes duck hunting with his father. The boy befriends the duck after a short time. "I like it when the strange and uncanny suddenly become bearable and then even take center stage," said Clapin in a 2018 interview.

Producer Marc du Pontavice became aware of the director and animator through Clapin's short films and won him over for the film project I lost my body , which is based on a novel by Guillaume Laurant . Clapin wrote the script, directed, and animated with Laurant. The animation was implemented again with Blender, using both 3D and 2D animation. I Lost My Body was released in 2019 and was Clapin's debut feature film. The film won numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix Nespresso of the “Semaine de la critique” section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival , as well as the Cristal d'Annecy for best feature film and the Audience Award of the Festival d'Animation Annecy 2019. In 2020 Clapin received an Oscar nomination for the film for Best Animated Film .

Filmography

• 2004: Une histoire vertébrale
• 2008: Beside the Track (Skhizein)
• 2012: The Duck Monster (Palmipédarium)
• 2019: I lost my body (J'ai perdu mon corps)

Awards (selection)

• 2008: Golden Dove of the International Jury of the Animation Section, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film , for Beside the Track
• 2009: Golden Rider of the Youth Jury and International Audience Award, Dresden Film Festival, for Beside the Track
• 2009: SWR Audience Award, Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film , for Beside the Track
• 2009: Nomination César, Best Short Film, for Beside the Track
• 2019: Grand Prix Nespresso of the section “Semaine de la critique”, Cannes International Film Festival 2019, for I lost my body
• 2019: Cristal d'Annecy for the best feature film and audience award, Festival d'Animation Annecy, for I've lost my body
• 2019: Best Animated Film , New York Film Critics Circle Award , for I've lost my body
• 2019: Best Animation Award , Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards , for I've Lost My Body
• 2019: Nomination for Prix ​​Louis Delluc , Best First Work, for I lost my body
• 2019: Nomination for the European Film Award , Best Animated Film , for I've lost my body
• 2020: Oscar nomination, Best Animated Film , for I've Lost My Body
• 2020: Annie Awards nomination , Best Animated Independent Feature, Best Director, Best Storyboard, Best Screenplay, for I've Lost My Body
• 2020: Nomination Prix ​​Lumières , Best Director, Best Film Music, Best Animated Film, for I lost my body

Web links

• Jérémy Clapin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Jérémy Clapin on vimeo.com
• Biography Jérémy Clapin . In: I lost my body , Press Kit 2019, p. 9.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography of Jérémy Clapin on www.semainedelacritique.com
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Katia Bayer: Jérémy Clapin. Abstraction de l'acteur, contre-emploi, et personnages un peu cassés . formatcourt.com, October 22, 2009.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Rob Munday: TheyAreAnimators # 8: Jeremy Clapin . 4th March 2013.
4. ↑ DEK: Une histoire vertebrale . shortoftheweek.com, April 21, 2008.
5. ^ Festival international de court-métrage de Dresden Edition 2005 . unifrance.org.
6. ↑ Volker Mazassek: Open-mouthed amazement . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 14, 2010, p. D5.
7. ↑ The first time - Jérémy Clapin on arte.tv, October 12, 2019.
8. ↑ “Golden Doves” are flying again: 51st Documentary Film Festival in Leipzig ended after awarding of the award . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , November 3, 2008.
9. ↑ Films as surprise bags: The Dresden Film Festival shows the world . In: Dresdner Latest News , April 18, 2009, p. 10.
10. ↑ Bernd Haasis: Festival of Animated Film: The Final . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , May 11, 2009, p. 13.