Project Description
La Nuit de l’Ours
(Switzerland, 2012, 21′) by Sam and Fred Guillaume
Against an eerie urban backdrop, homeless animals are looking for shelter for the night. They take refuge in the Bear’s house, forming an ephemeral community that will disband as soon as dawn breaks. A tale of social exclusion told in an original and unique way.
Our first animation film The Night of the Bear was born from the meeting with the team of reception centre “La Tuile” in Switzerland. We got to know this community bound by precariousness and it soon seemed necessary to transpose into images these moments of great intimacy, giving a voice to those who we tend to hastily label as ‘the excluded’. The mirror shown by these men and women is not easy to observe; at the same time it is a necessity for those who believe in the progress of society. The original intention was not to inform the viewers about the phenomenon of precarity, but to touch them deeply stimulating a debate.
Sam e Fred Guillaume
Sam and Fred Guillaume were born on 7 October 1976 in Friborg (Switzerland). They embark on animation in 1998 making their first film, The Little Penguin Who Wanted an ice cream. Excited by this first experience, the two brothers decide to continue their work and make genre films, scientific films and short films. From 2003 to 2007, the adventure of the first feature film with Max & Co (CH-F-B-UK) begins, which is distributed in more than 20 countries and in particular wins the public award at the Annecy festival. Parallel to the films, they collaborate on various projects of shows and installations, gaining public awareness through the The Magic Lanterns children’s club, organizing continuing training seminars, focal and guidance workshops and conferences. Very interested in new technologies, they like to develop tools to deepen research at the service of storytelling.