The Night Boots
2024 · 12m · France
Directed by Pierre-Luc Granjon
Genres: animation, family, fantasy
Tones: dark, tender, whimsical
A child sneaks into the forest at night wearing wellington boots, where a strange creature leads him to meet nocturnal inhabitants.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Granjon revives a dying art form — the pinscreen produces imagery no digital tool can replicate, a velvet-dark forest world that feels genuinely handmade.
Pinscreen animation — Alexeïeff-Parker technique is genuinely one of the rarest forms in the world, and any film made on the Epinette deserves attention on craft grounds alone. Yes.
Pierre-Luc Granjon working in the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen — one of the rarest animation techniques in the world, producing shadow-engraving imagery — is a genuine event. The technique itself is the formal gesture; this is the kind of craft preservation that justifies the form.