David.Myriam : : Artiste

My film "Midnight Blue" is online!

David Myriam — 2018-03-11T15:08:00Z

Film "Bleu Nuit" (Midnight Blue) - sand art animation

In March 2018, on the occasion of anniversary of the 2011 tsunami in Japan that triggered the Fukushima nuclear disaster, I make public my short film "Midnight Blue" created in 2013.
Unfortunately, since 2011, Fukushima is not over and the nuclear industry continues to expand, especially in France, where the danger of a nuclear disaster is becoming increasingly high according to specialists! And where in Bure, the state continues to want to impose bad and ruinous "solutions" for the most radioactive waste.
Since 2011, this world has still not detoxified Growth, oil and the race for profits.

– But whales are there to alert our ears, listen to them ... in "BMidnight Blue".

Synopsis

This ecological tale takes us to the heart of the underwater world, between night and light, following the rhythm of a whale's meditations, a privileged witness of human activity on the oceans.

– More informations
– Midnight Blue was screeened in sixty festivals around the world, and has won several awards.
– Read the poetic voice-over of lyrics

History of the birth of the film

I imagined this film after creation of two live sand drawing performances for the Festival Musica Nigella in 2011, with music by Crumb and Natsuda .
The theme of the concert was "The Secret Life of Oceans" , and I was inspired dramas including the Japanese tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster , and the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform operated by BP .


2013 :: Midnight Blue :: Sand drawing film

Sand art film: Midnight Blue

David Myriam — 2013-11-05T14:57:37Z

This sand drawing film was conducted without a budget or grants.

Trailer

Sand art Film "Bleu Nuit": Trailer

David Myriam

Synopsis

This ecological tale takes us to the heart of the underwater world, between night and light, following the rhythm of a whale's meditations, a privileged witness of human activity on the oceans.


2013 :: Midnight Blue :: Sand drawing film

History of the birth of the film

For the first time , I used blue sand , which corresponded well to the diving atmosphere.


2013 :: Midnight Blue :: Sand drawing film

Thereafter, I imagined a storyboard inspired by these performances , adding other elements , including the issue of fishing and fish consumption.

Once editing advanced , on the advice of productor Citron Bien & Hélène Ducrocq , I wrote a poem to give another dimension to the film.
For the first time , I created a movie with lyrics.

Gérard Bonnotte then harmonized its original musical composition with this poem.
The film was completed in June 2013.


2014 :: Midnight Blue :: price for Yound Audience + nomination, Festival "Des Courts en Hiver", Porto Vecchio

Festivals and screenings

January 30, 2019: in competition in the section High school students, Festival "Le temps presse"
Winter 2016 and Spring 2017: screenings with Festina Lente sailing festival (Morocco, Canary Islands, Cape Verde ...)
November 2016: Voices from the Waters Festival, Bangalore, India
June 2015: Festival "Plein La Bobine", La Bourboule, France
May 16 & June 09, 2015: "Green Movies" in Time in Jazz festival, Berchidda, Sardinia
April 18-19, 2015 :: Hong Kong-San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival, with Ocean Recovery Alliance
April 12-17 :: The International "Water en Film" Events, IWFE, for short film official competition, South Korea
April 14-18, 2015 :: Skepto Festival, Cagliari, Italy
March 28 :: "Mali Tout Court" Festival, Lyon, France
March 27-29, 2015 :: Green Image Film Festival, Japan
March 22, 2015 :: screening for the World Water Day, with Cramades Union waters, St Flour, France
December 20, 2014 :: screening at "cinéma le Navire" fort the event "The shortest day"
December 2014 : festival "III Muestra medioambiental", Lanzarote, Canarias, Spain
October 16-19, 2014: Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
October 8-12, 2014: Ecollywood Festival, Lille, France
Octobre 5, 2014, Alternatiba in Lille, France, with Ecollywood festival
October 3-11, 2014: Ponferrada Film Festival, Spain
September 22-27, 2014 : Shortvisions Festival, GreenFilm section (with help of Interfilm Berlin), Ningbo, China
September 17-21, 2014 : Festiver, Festival de Cine Verde de Barichara, Colombia
Midnight Blue has been selected in "Green Archive" film program with Korean Green Foundation & Green film festival in Seoul. Lots of non-profit public screenings for schools, NGOs, civic groups, and local governments are scheduled
August 2014: ANFFIS (Animal film festival in Suncheon), South Korea
August, 2014 : Clorofilla film festival, Rispescia, Italy
August 1st, 2014 : Festival Alter'Natifs, Cobonne, France
July 2014: "Temps Fête", Maritime Festival of Douarnenez, France
June 2014: Festival In the Palace, Balchik, Bulgaria
May, 2014: Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental de Canarias, Spain
May 31, 2014: San Francisco Green Film Festival, USA
May 2014: Ecozine film festival, Zaragoza, Spain
May 2014: Green film festival in Seoul, South Korea
April 2014: Festival Les Toiles de Mer, Lanton, France :: High schooler award
April 2014: Festival Rencontres Cinéma nature, Dompierre sur Besbre, France
March 2014: The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Washington, USA
January 2014: festival Des Courts en Hiver, Corsica, Porto-Vecchio :: award for Yound Audience + nomination for the category "Poems seen and heard"
November 2013: Interfilm Berlin for "Green Screen" competition
September 2013: Festival "Cinéma en Liberté" in Cuers (France), for outdoor screening under the stars
September 2013: Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Estonia, extra program
September 2013: Sand Art Festival "The Touch", Ukraine, 1st price in nomination "Video presentation in sand technique"
September 2013: Avant première at festival Croq'Anime in Paris


2014 :: Midnight Blue :: Washington Environmental Film Festival


2013 :: Midnight Blue :: Sand art film, Festival selection

Other informations

Director: David Myriam
Technic: live sand drawing
Production: Pierre Dron – Citron Bien
Music / Sound design: Gérard Bonnotte
Artistic direction: Hélène Ducrocq
French voice over: Maud Fouassier
Subtitles: english, chinese & spanish subtitles available
Length 07'55"
End of Production: June 2013
Shooting: digital camera HD
Available formats: digital files, DVD, Blu Ray...
Postcards available here
Facebook page

View online : Midnight Blue on Facebook

Film Morsures

David Myriam — 2013-04-24T13:20:33Z

This film uses a selection of my black and white drawings (ink, posca, charcoal) made between 2010 and 2012.
More than a slideshow, this short film is a staged drawings, to create a mood, a progression, without narrative but with parts forming a whole.
Another way to present the drawings, an experimental film.

Morsures :: Film de dessins

David Myriam

Lenght: 03 min.
Editing: mars 2013
HD 1920x1080
Music: Lonah
Licence: Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Presented by RevoltEmotion
On these Networks: Vimeo + YouTube + Dailymotion


2011 :: Dehumanize machine 2011 model :: Black Ink Drawing, part :: 50x60 cm

Terminal Recession

David Myriam — 2012-10-10T14:15:33Z

Terminal recession is an experimental film, shot entirely in sand animation (frame by frame) on the theme of a terrifying mutation...
This expressionist animated film, full of emotions, illustrates the dead end resulting of economic downturns, symbols of the violence coming from this system that turns humans into a disposable machine...
A movie made to wake up :: #OCCUPY ART!

http://player.vimeo.com/video/43243552

David Myriam

About the film

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Director: David Myriam
Production: Pierre Dron - Citron Bien
Music / Sound Design: Gérard Bonnotte
Artistic Director: Hélène Ducrocq
Technique: Sand Animation
Duration: 4'32
Year of Production: 2012
Synopsis: Close your eyes, destroy the lacquer, degrades your smooth and clean picture... found the machine!

Making off

Festivals, Screenings & Review

December 20, 2014 :: screening at "cinéma le Navire" fort the event "The shortest day"
August 1st, 2014 : Festival Alter'Natifs, Cobonne, France
"Ciné-Rebelle" Festival : Paris, March 27, 2014
TV broadcast on "Télé Bocal" : February 2014 (TNT & Box adsl)
Screening with Collectif Prod : Paris, December 6, 2013
Festival Croq'Anime : Paris, September 07, 2013, during "Citron Bien" special program
9ème festival des Nouveaux Cinémas, international festival for digital movies, France, 14 au 23 juin 2013
Mediawave Festival: Hungary, May 2013
Festival Traverse Vidéo: Toulouse, March 20, 2013, at Goethe Institut
Festival du Film Court de Villeurbanne 2012: selection for european competition, November 17 + 22, 2012
Official screening at "Carrefour de l'Animation": One of the major events for animation films in France.
Friday, November 23 at 18h: screening at "Forum des Images"
October 20, 2012 : Review in local press (Echo le Valentinois)
October 2012: Post on the Podcast Journal
October 2012: Post on the blog Ceegee
10.10.2012, the film is screening on ARTE Creative, Court Circuit / Labo

Galery

REZIGN, sand animation film

David Myriam — 2011-09-29T07:13:00Z

Sand animation film "REZIGN"

David Myriam

Duration: 06'43'' :: Full HD
A frame by frame film by David Myriam
Production 2010: Cellofan' Productions & Gorgone Productions


2008 :: Sand animation film "Rezign"

This short film is finished and available from Cellofan' Productions.

– Festivals and screenings

Animation Film Festival of Paris, Croq'Anime, September 8th, 2012
Shorts films projection at Fresnoy, Tourcoing, April 17, 2012, with CRRAV
Projection in Paris with Collectif Prod
With live music: Clap'n'Sound, March 2th, 2012, Pierre de Roubaix theater, Lille, France
Cortoons Festival 2012: Italy
Festival des nuits méditerranéennes 2010: Corte, Corsica

Galery

Reflections: slideshow film

David Myriam — 2011-05-27T21:04:43Z

A sort of slideshow made with black drawings, about violence and human uniformity, along with the sad fate of other animals.


REFLECTIONS

Black and white drawings like symbols, deliberately simplified, mechanical and geometric, to reflect the construction of a unlivable world.

Duration: 04:45
Creation: May, 2011
Drawings are coming from "Reflections" and "Recomposition"

Rezign Live, experimental film

David Myriam — 2010-12-31T10:51:39Z

During this performance, 2 screens were used: one for live sand drawing show, the second for recorded pictures.

Rezign Live, Experimental Film from a sand performance

David Myriam

:: The story is about the end of our world, with climate change and disaster. Self-destruction of humanity? ::

Left screen: live sand drawing
Right screen: sand pictures + short clips coming from the sand animation film "Rezign"
Duration: 15:40
Music: Gérard Bonnotte


2010 - Sand drawing performance with 2 screens for "Rezign Live" Valence, France

It's not food! (sand animation film)

David Myriam — 2009-11-23T08:42:14Z

Mangez Buvez Gavez / It's not Food!

David Myriam

This short movie is my third film using sand, with a mix of frame by frame animation (traditional animation under camera) and live sand drawing (usually for shows and performances).

Some videos from StopGavage.com inspired me to show violence behind nice ads. A small pleasure like “foie gras” causes great sufferings for ducks and geese in stockbreedings and slaughter-houses.
– To help stop force feeding, please don't buy any “foie gras” (fat liver) and sign a manifesto: http://www.stopgavage.com/en/manife...

A film by David Myriam
French original title: Mangez Buvez Gavez
In partnership with Stop Gavage: www.stopgavage.com
Sound track and original music: Gérard Bonnotte
Duration: 09:40 (with generic)
End of production: October 2009
Technical: sand animation and live sand drawing, full HD 1920x1080, colour, stereo, 16/9

This independent movie is available freely for non-commercial use. You can download it for private use, project it for non profit event, use it in a activist way on the street or on the Web…

– This short movie « It's not food » is downloadable as HD file (1280x720, .mp4, 360 Mo) on Vimeo website
– Stop Gavage/L214 Organisations propose a DVD (with goodies) and postcards for order.


It's not Food, picture from the movie

– Festivals and screenings

Screening on "Télé Bocal": April 18, 2014 (TNT & adsl Box)
Media library of Pont en Royans, France, December 21, 2013, for short film event "Le Jour le Plus Court"
Goethe Institut: screening in Kiev in April 2013, with festival Interfilm Berlin
Shortsattack 2011, Germany, "Nature Calling"
Festival Interfilm: "Green Screen" section , November 2011
At Festival Normandie in Evreux France, 2011, It's not food win the public price
Animation Film Festival "Be There!" in Corfu, Greece, April 2011
Festival International du Film Nature et Environnement: December 1st 2010, Grenoble, France
Paris, "Café de Paris", screening on September 3th, 2010, with CollectifProd
Festival Pirandello: June 2010, The Netherlands, about "Slow Food" theme
Festival "Coup de Prod." : May 8yh, 2010, during "Festival des Très Courts", L'Arbresle (France, 69)
Festival du film militant du pays d'Aubagne, October 2009

– It's not food! is screening on the Web:

Do you mind?

David Myriam — 2005-06-04T09:51:21Z

Do you mind?

David Myriam

My second short animation film is again made using the technique of sand animation (direct sand painting). I worked out an original script with music created by Mathieu Lozinguez.

Duration: 03 minutes and 30 sec
Technical: sand animation
Original music: Mathieu Lozinguez
Shooting: still camera
Production: 2005/2006
Script: A girl tries to escape by dream from her prison world. Her only interlocutor is a robot. Will the child of the future have still enough powerful dreams to be able to get out of a cold and functional world?
This film is supported by KaAM.

– Screenings

July 2012 : Festival Cinéma Brut, for self-produced movies, France
Screening on french tv, channel Canal+, in the television program "Les Films Faits A La Maison" : 1st broadcast May 7th, 2010 at 23h30
Festival in st martin de Valamas, April 2009, France
Festival Prototype, April 2009, Paris, win the "Prototype d'or"
Festival "Rencontre entre les mondes", February 2009, Chabeuil, France
Festival Proj(ect), new pictures festival, november 2008, France
Event "Impressions visuelles et sonores", November, 8th 2008, Marseille, France
Festival du film d'animation pour la jeunesse, October 2008, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
Festival du film militant d'Aubagne, october 2008, France
Syros International Animation Festival, Grèce, septembre 2008
Festival FCAN 2007, Belgium, NeufChâteau, November, international selection
Festival I Castelli Animati, November 2007, international program
Festival du film court de Villeurbanne, special screening, November 16th, 2007: "Rhône-Alpes short films"
Interfilm 2007, Berlin, Germany, in "Clip it! - Music, Art and Animation"
L'Alternativa, Barcelona independant film festival, november 2007, for "Hall Screen"
Festival LUFF, Lausanne underground Film & musique festival, october 2007, Suisse
Festival court métrange, October 2007, Rennes, France, european festival of strange and fantastic short films
LIAF Festival, August 2007, London international animation festival
Melbourne international animation festival (MIAF), Australia, international program 2
Festival One Minute/One Shot, Yérevan, Armenia, May 17/25 2007
Festival BUSHO, Budapest, Hungria, August 3/7 2007
Festival OPEN CINEMA, Saint Pétersbourg, Russia, August 25th, 2007
Program "Around Alpes", France, beside Annecy, May, 5th 2007
March, 9th 2007 : Festival Traverse Video at Toulouse, France
Tehran international animation film festival, 2007
Décember 2006 : Selection at Tirana International Film Festival, TIFF
October 26th, 2006 : Centre Pompidou for animation special program

A hole in the place of heart

David Myriam — 2005-05-12T15:44:10Z

A Hole in the Place of Heart

David Myriam

My first animation short film was finished in January 2005; the film is entitled « Un trou à la place du cœur » (A hole in the place of heart). It is an independent film carried out without any budget.

Duration: 2 minutes and 52 sec
Technique: sand animation on line under camera
Original music: Mathieu Lozinguez
Camera: still camera Dimage A1 (Minolta)
Synopsis: When the violence of individuals generates the birth of an unverifiable collective monster... A surrealist vision of inhumanity.
Info: I worked starting from a scenario (with drawings of the key images of each plan), then transforming a little the screen (additions and modifications of plans) during the realization. No producer and no budget for this independent short film.

– This animation short film is available on DVD or CD.

– Here are extracts from this sand animation film:

– Festivals and screenings:

Paris, "Café de Paris", screening on September 3th, 2010, with CollectifProd
Festival in st martin de Valamas, April 2009, France
Festival "Rencontre entre les mondes", February 2009, Chabeuil, France
Festival Proj(ect), new pictures festival, november 2008, France
Event "Impressions visuelles et sonores", November, 8th 2008, Marseille, France
Festival intergalactique, Brest, France, october 2008
Festival du film militant d'Aubagne, France, october 2008
Nuit du court à Amiens, France, april 2008
Micang club, place dedicated to independant culture in Shangai, March 16 to 18th 2007
Festival ISFF - Curta Cinema 2006, Rio de Janeiro, december 2006
Festival court métrange 2006, Rennes, october 2006, european festival of strange and fantastic short films...
Hiroshima Festival 2006, special non-competitive programme "Animation for peace", august 27th
Rencontres Traverse video, March 2006
« Les Inattendus » Festival Lyon, France, January 27 2006, independants films.
Short film Festival of Vaulx-en-Velin (January 14-21 2006, screening)
L'Alternativa, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, November 11-19 2005, in a non-competitive section: Hall Screen (l'Alternativa Hall)
4th Norwich animation international festival,19/22 october 2005, in a non-competitive programme.
The Rencontres internationales du cinéma d'animation de Wissembourg, 6th R.I.C.A. (November 14-22, 2005)
Program "Operation coups de gueule", during the festival of Aubagne (October, 3-8th, 2005), and during the international Meetings of documentary of Montreal (from November, 10-20th, 2005). This special program is organized with http://www.silenceoncourt.tv
Festival Summertime, July, 1-3rd , 2005 in "Belleville sur Saone" (69, France)
Programme "Around The Very short" the Alps a fringe event of the festival of Very the shorts. Screenign in France, beside Annecy, April, 23-24th, 2005.
Festival of short animation films of Neufchâteau, Belgium, April 14,15,16, 2005
Festival of short film of Lille, France, of March 27th to April 2th, 2005