Jean-Luc Slock: Film Programme Presentation
The animation studio Camera-etc based in Liège, Belgium, was created in 1979 by Jean-Luc Slock basically to produce animation projects with social and cultural goals. Thousands of children, youngsters and adults in the country and around the world have participated in animation workshops, producing hundreds of animated shorts. These films are mostly used as sensibilisation tools for citizenship items and are screened in educational networks. Funded by the Cinema department of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Camera-etc’s assignment is to use animation as a psycho-social means of personal and collective development.
Nowadays, a permanent team of 14 persons is working on 5 different types of projects: collective workshops, auteur films, international cooperation, social advertising and music videos. The retrospective includes 8 international awarded films recently produced by the studio. The program gives an overview of the eclecticism of Camera-etc animators, from the fresh Yoyo’s adventures, made with children, the very emotional Butoyi, a film about child abuse done with teenagers in Burundi, the strange adult collective film Reptile smile, 4 of our auteur films including Mathieu Labaye’s hit Orgesticulanismus, to the music clip for Yew featuring Belgian rock musician Arno.
The Adventures of Yoyo
Pierre releases Yoyo, his grandmother’s parrot. But the animal has to learn to fly before joining other parrots in Amazonia.
The film was made by 13 children with the help of Louise-Marie Colon & Delphine Hermans.
Butoyi
Bukuru and Butoyi are twins. Butoyi is a brilliant student. However, while her brothers go to school, she has to help her mom in daily tasks.
The film was made by 12 young girls from Burundi with the help of Louise-Marie Colon & Simon Medard.
The Sardine Tin
Eva is a tiny little mermaid. One day she falls in love with Emile, a single fisherman, and jumps in his fishing net. Emile finds Eva in a sardine tin...
Reptile Smile
An infinite zoom of strange spaces, one after another...
The film was made by 10 adults with the help of Simon Medard & Mathieu Labaye.
Orgesticulanismus
“When moving, you take over your own life. When you're free to come and go, to have gestures of... love, tenderness, anger, no matter. So when you are deprived of the ability to move, as I am, as many others are... in order to survive you need to reinvent movement.” (Camera-etc) -Benoît Labaye
Cleo’s Boogie
Two old friends, living with their cat in a faded apartment, relive the percussive and furious atmosphere of the Boogie-woogie of their youth. At that time, they accompanied a sensual singer of whom there is no more than an image on an old poster … Unless the black cat is her reincarnation?
Poils
A funny portrait of hair lovers. Seductions, disappointments, fantasies...
YEW feat. ARNO “Between up & down”
Black and white atmosphere of the 30s. A man is standing in front of a burning house before jumping into his car to run away...