They Dance With Their Heads

They Dance With Their Heads

“They Dance With Their Heads”, 2021 Animation film (painting and drawing on paper), 8m 27s The severed head of a choreographer is held captive by an eagle on a desert island. With a dazzling mastery of drawing and painting, this animated short unexpectedly takes us into the sensitive world of an artist madly in love with dance. Director & Screenwriter : Thomas Corriveau Actor : Marc Béland The dancers : Audrée Juteau, Brice Noeser, Marie Mougeolle, Catherine Tardif, Liane Thériault, Antoine Turmine & Eduardo Ruiz Vergara Direction of dancers : Thomas Corriveau & Marie Mougeolle Drawing, painting : Thomas Corriveau, assisted by Hédy Gobaa & Leila Zelli Sound design : Olivier Calvert Musical conception : Guido del Fabbro Additional music : “Dans ma tête” (“In My Head”), composed and performed by Philippe Brach (courtesy of La maison fauve) Produced and distributed by Thomas Corriveau This film was supported the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, The National Film Board of Canada’s Filmmaker Assistance Program, Grupmuv & Hexagram-UQAM. https://ift.tt/uKyOWjU FB : https://ift.tt/Y8slWgS AWARDS Animaphix (Bagheria, Italy) : Special Mention – Animated Painting Competition Choreoscope (Barcelona, Spain) : Award – Best International Short Dance Short Film Gala Prends ça court! (Montréal, Canada) : Prix Voyelles films + Prix Travelling distribution Gala Québec Cinéma (Montréal, Canada) : Finaliste du Prix Iris, Meilleur court métrage - animation Festival Cinéma du monde (Sherbrooke, Canada) : Finaliste pour le prix du Meilleur court métrage de l’Estrie Florida Animation Festival (Tallahassee, USA) : Honorable Mention Festival Cuerpo Mediado (Rosario, Argentina) : Mention Especial, Traslaciones mediadas – Experimental Lights Dance Festival (Seattle, USA) : Audience Choice winner FILM FESTIVALS 2021 Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy, France (International Premiere) Animaphix, Bagheria, Italy DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo Imaginaria, Conversano, Italy Sans Souci, Boulder, USA Minikino Film Week 7, Indonesia The Animattikon Project, Paphos, Cyprus Choreoscope, Barcelona, Spain Animasyros. Syros Island, Greece Ajayu, Puno, Peru Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland Festival du nouveau cinema, Montréal, Canada Zinetica Festival, Spain Festival du cinéma international en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada Tbilisi International Animation Festival, Georgia FICFA, Moncton, Canada Festival de Videodanza de Palma, Mallorca, Spain GIRAF International Festival of Independent Animation, Calgary, Canada International Izmir Short Film Festival, Turkey Panamá Animation Festival, Panama 2022 Multiplié Dance Film, Trondheim, Norway Dance on Camera, New York, USA Animation Dingle, Ireland Animfest, Athens, Greece Bodyscope, Moscow, Russia Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA Regard, Chicoutimi, Canada Mecal Pro, Barcelona, Spain Festival cinéma du monde de Sherbrooke, Canada Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Canada Moovy Tanzfilmfestival, Köln, Germany ScreenDance festival, Stockholm, Sweden Sommets du cinema d’animation, Montréal, Canada Animatricks, Helsinki, Finland Encore Dance on Film Festival, Decatur, USA River Film Festival, Padua, Italy Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia Florida Animation Festival, Tallahassee, USA ADF’s Movies By Movers, Durham, USA Cinedans, Amsterdam, Netherlands Diversions International Short Film Festival, Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia Animaphix, Bagheria, Italia Les Percéides, Percé, Canada Long weekend du court, Trois-Rivières, Canada ZED Festival Internazionale Videodanza, Bologna, Italy Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada Screen Dance International, Detroit, USA TANZAHOi International Festival, Hamburg, Germany Imajitari International Dance Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia Bolton International Film Festival, UK Portland Dance Film Fest, USA International Screendance Festival of Chile, Santiago, Chili International Videodance Festival Cuerpo Mediado, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Festival Cine a la Calle FICICA, Baranquilla, Colombia Lobo Fest, Brasilia, Brazil Festival Internazionale di Videodanza, Cagliari, Italy Cinedanza Festival, Modena, Italy Arpa International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA Moving Body Festival, Varna, Bulgaria ReAnimania, Yeravan, Armenia World Of Film International Festival, Glasgow, UK Dance On Screen FilmFestival, Graz, Austria Lights Dance Festival, Seattle, USA AniMate Film Festival, Sydney, Autralia Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, USA Dance Onscreen, Sudbury, Canada Veçer Filmov, Boja, Slovenia Festival international de Curtas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Shockfest: Theater of Mystery, USA 2023 Physical Cinema Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Greece Performance Mix Festival, New York, USA FuoriFormato, Genoa (Italy Cinédanse Caraquet (Canada Lago Film Fest, Italy WildDogs Screendance Festival, Calgary, Canada