8 Bullets (8 Balles)
2014 · 12m · France
Directed by Frank Ternier
Genres: animation, drama, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Gabriel, living in Taipei, is shattered when his wife is murdered during a home assault by a red-haired stranger. The film follows his obsessive pursuit of vengeance, rendered in an experimental mixed-media animation that blends hand-drawn sequences with 3D compositing.
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The scouts
A French revenge story drawn on paper and set in Taipei for no reason that the film ever explains — the displacement IS the grief, and the animation technique looks like someone scraped it off a wall.
Frank Ternier's Arte-produced animation displaces a French revenge story onto Taipei and mixes paper drawing with 3D compositing so that grief has no logical geography — a stylish formal gambit even if the genre bones are familiar.
Frank Ternier mixing rough hand-drawn paper animation with 3D compositing for a displaced French revenge story set in Taipei — clinical and dreamlike at once. Multiple international animation awards for an unusual technical hybrid.
Reviews
Innovation is something we crave in all our featured films and Ternier's short has that in droves, combining this ingenuity with an emotive and engaging storyline.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival – Directors' Fortnight 2014
- Toronto International Film Festival 2014