Louis – A film by Violaine Pasquet
Louis is a 10 year old boy. He became deaf during his early childhood.
He likes to play with his favorite animals: snails. It even has a terrarium. The reality of his disability catches up with him when he crosses the school gate. In the eyes of others, he is “the parable” and he is fed up with it …
Credits
Director: Violaine Pasquet
Producer: Anne Wandewaeter (CESDA)
Music: Raphaël Bigaud
Editing: Valentin Herbreteau
Voice: Ewen Deniau
Sets: Stéphanie Lussat
Cast: Ewen Deniau, Crystèle Huet, Nathalie Selles
Release date: 2014
Country: France
Duration: 9 minutes
Production notes
Louis has to make a presentation and this subject allows Violaine Pasquet to approach, with a poetic shift, the problems of parental, social and school relations linked to her hearing disability. A performance, because the artistic shift is sufficiently mastered for Louis to be explicit, while being poetic and without pathos.
Raise awareness among students and teachers through poetry
This animated film was commissioned by the Center for education for deaf hearing impaired people (Cesda) in Herault. Anne Vandwaeter works there: “We wanted to talk about our work, support in schools, awareness among other students and teachers, but through poetry and sensitivity, hence the commission of an animated film. . “
The center has retained the Clissonnaise, Violaine Paquet. “For a year, we organized meetings with her, families and hearing impaired children to prepare the film,” specifies Anne Vandwaeter. The goal: that the story told poetically by Violaine evokes as well as possible the conditions of schooling of the hearing impaired. This film should make their problems understood. We will use it during awareness meetings that we organize in schools for teachers and students. “
14 months in all
The film Louis will also shoot in various establishments for the hearing impaired. In Clisson, in La Fabule, the workshop where she shoots her animations and gives animation lessons for children and adults, Violaine Pasquet therefore took more than a year to build Louis’ plot, to create the decor and the nine characters, to be shot, frame by frame, the different scenes. “14 months in all”.
The name of this film comes from the hearing impaired children she has met. “After defining the storyline, I asked them what they wanted to call the main character. The first name Louis was unanimous. However, none consciously made the connection between the first name Louis and hearing. “
Biography
Violaine Pasquet was born in 1979 in La Ciotat.
After studying 3D computer graphics and special effects in Montpellier, she worked in Paris in an association of cinephiles to intervene with young people in an area around the of a stop-motion workshop.
This project, which will last a year, will give him a taste for traditional animation. She tries out different animation techniques, cartoon, cut out animation, but it’s the stopmotion that attracts her the most, she likes to work with the material, create shapes, mold, sculpt … the side stopmotion scientific laboratory where everything is being reinvented at every moment.
Violaine Pasquet gives courses for adults and children all year round and realization workshops in schools and neighborhood centers.
Always on the move, she has just created an animation studio “La Fabule” in Loire Atlantique.
Filmography
Hector – 2009
Le chant des grenouilles – 2016