Damien Tran

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech.

A musical animated film which celebrates the simple and childish joy of hitting drums, scribbling on paper using marker pens, splashing paint or making cracked cymbals screech.

An animated short by Damien Tran with music by Rachel Langlais.

Village noyé (Drowned village) is an experimental animation film. It shows scenes of destruction, collapse, escape and drowning.The theme of this film « catastrophe » is a pretext to manipulate specific kinds of images and sounds. I played around with 3D softwares without any knowhow of the softwares in beforehand. The same way a kid would break some objects that he had patiently built, I tried to induce bugs, errors and accidents into the scenes and situations that I have drawn. The sequences of images generated by computer were then printed one by one, and reprinted, distorted and destroyed with an old photocopy machine. It is a question of transforming a clean and perfect imagery to an aesthetic of dirtyness, roughness and unpredactibility.The music was produced with a similar approach, while screening the film on an old cathodic television and capturing light signals from it. Those signals were then transformed randomly through a modular synthesiser.

Short film commissioned by Le Trabendo for the promotion of Venetian Snares's concert in Paris, May 2018. The starting point of this film was the poster designed for this show. A lot of graphic material remained unused : handwritings, drawings, patterns and textures... Once randomly scanned and roughly animated, it was combined with weird photocopy jams and lo-fi animations.

Music : Alix Lhoumeau Animation : Damien Tran Palefroi

"The star that devours the planets"