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Alambic

2022 3 films
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The Alambic collection invites you to experience the unique and stunning vision of a group of emerging filmmakers, in a series of films each under three minutes long. Alambic is an experimental creative lab offering early-career artists the opportunity to craft original visual stories in the space of a few months. Drawing on their own interior worlds as well as the creative energy from the group, these directors/craftspeople explore a universe where everything is possible, in a collaborative and stimulating environment. Alambic is a space of artistic ferment, where ideas and imagination blend together, are distilled, drop by drop, and …

First film: Solid Ground
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  • Solid Ground
    Solid Ground
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    Beatriz Carvalho 2022 2 min

    Solid Ground is a poetic and sound-rich travelogue—a personal journal that reveals the thoughts of an expatriate returning to her native land. Employing the rarely used monotype animation technique, Solid Groundreflects the personal experience of discovering different lands and feeling as though one were simultaneously at home and elsewhere. A film from the Alambic collection, a creative lab by the NFB’s French Program Animation Studio that’s designed for emerging filmmakers.

  • Modern Alchemy
    Modern Alchemy
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    Bren López Zepeda 2022 2 min

    Strength. Challenges. Courage. Modern Alchemy depicts a quest for self-knowledge that revolves around resilience, reconstruction and rebirth. A succession of colours, each more vibrant than the last, in which one stops breathing for a moment to find a path toward inner peace. A film from the Alambic collection, a creative lab by the NFB’s French Program Animation Studio that’s designed for emerging filmmakers.

  • By Winds and Tides
    By Winds and Tides
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    Bogdan Anifrani-Fedach 2022 2 min

    Exploring the conscious, the unconscious and the self, By Winds and Tides takes a deep experimental dive into the birth of an idea—how it takes shape, how it is released. An allegorical quest, the film combines images and words into a singular sigh. A film from the Alambic collection, a creative lab by the NFB’s French Program Animation Studio that’s designed for emerging filmmakers.

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The Alambic collection invites you to experience the unique and stunning vision of a group of emerging filmmakers, in a series of films each under three minutes long. Alambic is an experimental creative lab offering early-career artists the opportunity to craft original visual stories in the space of a few months.

An initiative of the NFB’s French Animation Studio, Alambic puts out an annual call for emerging creators who want to participate in this unique experience.

  • director
    Bogdan Anifrani-Fedach
    Beatriz Carvalho
    Bren López Zepeda
  • producer
    Anne-Marie Bousquet
  • executive producer
    Christine Noël

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