Whatever moves is alive
Whatever moves is alive by Noémie Marsily Director, Writer, Animator: Noémie Marsily Production: Zorobabel Music: Guillaume Lelièvre Sound: Christophe Rault – Studio Mima Sound Mixing: Aurélien Lebourg – La Notte Studio While slugs move across the kitchen floor, Noémie sketches a portrait of herself that is shifting and fragmented, on the border between the personal sphere and the hubbub of the world. The construction and deconstruction of the personality of a mother is presented as a constant flow of gaining and loosing, deep love and dependency. Intriguing is the minimalistic use of the drawing lines and its rough style, hectic like a very busy life of a mother with a small child. (Jury Statement - Festival Tricky Women Tricky Realities) The film takes one by surprise with its way of disintegrating bodies and relationships. With its dissolving boundary lines, it expresses a dissolution of self that one might feel in becoming a parent. (Jury Statement - GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation ) Awards: Best Belgian Short Film Award and Acquired by Canvas (Belgian Television) at ANIMA – Brussels International Animation Film Festival, 2023 3-Month Scholarship Award at Tricky Women Tricky Realities Festival, 2023 Honorable Mention for “Best Disembodiment” at GIRAF – Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2023 Festival Selections : Lille International Short Film Festival – Lille, France, 2022 Balkanima European Animated Film Festival – Belgrade, Serbia, 2022 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur – Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022 BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Festival – Bogotá, Colombia, 2022 Akbank Short Film Festival – Istanbul, Turkey, 2023 International Animation Film Festival of Meknès (FICAM) – Meknès, Morocco, 2023 Festival Courts d'un soir – Montreal, Canada, 2023 IMAXINARIA - Afundación International Animation Film Festival – A Coruña, Spain, 2023 Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) – Melbourne, Australia, 2023 Mecal - Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival – Barcelona, Spain, 2023 Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Annecy, France, 2023 International Animation Festival Fest Anča – Žilina, Slovakia, 2023 Guanajuato International Film Festival – Guanajuato, Mexico, 2023 Insomnia International Animation Film Festival – Moscow, Russia, 2023 Gibara International Film Festival – Gibara, Cuba, 2023 Nikozi International Animation Film Festival – Nikozi, Georgia, 2023 Festival of Animation Berlin – Berlin, Germany, 2023 Weird Market – Valencia, Spain, 2023 Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023 Fantoche International Animation Film Festival – Baden, Switzerland, 2023 Sedicicorto Forlì International Film Festival – Forlì, Italy, 2023 Primanima – Budapest, Hungary, 2023 Animest – Bucharest, Romania, 2023 20minmax Short Film Festival – Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023 Le Court en dit long Festival – Paris, France, 2023 REX Animation Festival – Stockholm, Sweden, 2023 Mumia – Belo Horizonte, Brésil, 2023 Manchester Animation Festival – Manchester, United Kingdom, 2023 Canlandiranlar International Film Festival – Istanbul, Turkey, 2023 Still Voices Film Festival – Ballymahon, Ireland, 2023 GIRAF, Festival of Independent Animation – Calgary, Canada, 2023 Animateka International Animated Film Festival – Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2023 London International Animation Festival (LIAF) – London, United Kingdom, 2023 L'Alternativa - Barcelona Independent Film Festival – Barcelona, Spain, 2023 ANIMAKOM FEST – Bilbao, Spain, 2023 PIAFF - Paris International Animation Film Festival – Paris, France, 2024 Animac – Lleida, Spain, 2024 13th Tehran International Animation Festival – Tehran, Iran, 2024 Beirut Animation Nights – Beirut, Lebanon, 2024 Kaboom Animation Festival – Amsterdam and Utrecht, Netherlands, 2024 Animocje – Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2024 Riga Pasaules Film Festival – Riga, Latvia, 2024 Trois Jours Trop Courts Festival – Castres, France, 2024 Sopot Film Festival – Sopot, Poland, 2024 Hiroshima Animation Season – Hiroshima, Japan, 2024 MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) – Bali International Short Film Festival – Bali, Indonesia, 2024 Monstrale - International Short Film Festival – Halle, Germany, 2024 The Big Cartoon Festival – Moscow, Russia, 2024 London International Animation Festival (LIAF) – London, United Kingdom, 2024 Rencontres Internationales Traverse – Toulouse, France, 2025 Animafest ZAGREB – Zagreb, Croatia, 2025
