Jean-François Laguionie

Jean-François Laguionie is a French animator, film director and producer of animation born 1939 in Besançon.

Biography

Laguionie was orgionally interested in theatre but is encounter with Paul Grimault gives him the opportunity to learn the techniques of animated film. Though they were very close to each other, Paul Grimault and Jean-François Laguionie rarely worked together (though Grimault produced Laguionie's first three shorts).

Jean-François Laguionie then directed several short films, climaxing with the now famous "La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame" ("Rowing across the Atlantic") (1978), which won the César Award for best short animated film in 1979.

He has also been a friend of Michel Ocelot, whose short film "Les Trois inventeurs" was shot in Laguionie's home and used the magnet-aided method of cutout animation invented by him.

While working on his first feature-length animated film, "Gwen, le livre de sable" ("Gwen, or the Book of Sand") in 1985, "Jef" founds the animation studio "La Fabrique". Though appreciated by critics, "Gwen" only received rather limited popular acclaim.

Only in 1999 does his second feature film, "Le Château des singes" ("The Castle of the Apes") premier, then in 2003 his third feature "L'Île de Black Mór" ("The Island of Black Mór").

Jean-François Laguionie is now working on "Le Tableau" ("The Picture"), a feature-length film using both animation and live-action.

Filmography

1965 : "La Demoiselle et le violoncelliste' ("The Maid and the Cellist") (short)

1969 : "Une Bombe par hasard" ("A Random Bomb") (short)

1971 : "Plage privée" ("Private Beach") (short)

1978 : "La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame" ("Rowing Across the Atlantic") (short)

1985 : "Gwen, le livre de sable" ("Gwen, or the Book of Sand") (feature film)

1999 : "Le Château des singes" ("The Castle of Monkeys", aka "A Monkey's Tale") (feature film)

2003 : "L'Île de Black Mór" ("The Island of Black Mór") (feature film)

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Notes and references

External links

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* [http://www.la-fabrique.com/sarl/ficherea.php?id=13 Jean-François Laguionie] at La Fabrique
* [http://www.afca.asso.fr/spip.php?rubrique52 Jean-François Laguionie] at AFCA
* [http://gciment.free.fr/caentretienlaguionie.htm "Un art appliqué"] (interview)