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Annecy 2011: Best graduation short & junior jury award

Plato just won a new price!! After France, Korea, Russia and Portugal, Plato has been awarded best animation at Interfilm BERLIN!! Thanks everybody!

Falling up, tumbling sideways, profound flatness and zigzagging lines. Hey, man! Where’s your cube? Welcome to Plato, somewhere between anamorphosis of reality and severity of imagination.

7 Min 50s
Techniques utilisées : Animation traditionnelle papier et volume
Logiciels : Final Cut, After Effect
Réalisation, scénario, graphisme et montage : Léonard Cohen
Musique : Romain Blanc-Tailleur, Pierre Bertaud du Chazaud, Mikaël Charry
Bruitages, Mixage : Quentin Romanet
Production : EnsAD/La Ménagerie/XBO films

Awards:

Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2011
-Best graduation short
-junior jury award

Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival 2011 (Sicaf)
-Special distinction

Monstra 2011 Lisboa animated film festival
-RTP2 Award

St Petersburg IX International Festival of Animation Arts Multivision
-Special mention

Interfilm Berlin:
-Best animation

Sélections:

-L'Ecole Va Au Cinéma, dans le cadre du festival international de courts métrages de Clermont Ferrand. France. Février 2011

-Festival "Ici et Demain", Festival artistique étudiant de la mairie de Paris. France. Mars 2011

-Festival International d'animation de Lisbonne "Monstra". Portugal. Mars 2011

-Ffat Festival des cultures francophones de Munich. Allemagne. Mars 2011

- La Semaine Tout Court. Nantes. France. Avril 2011

-Tolosa Tourne. Toulouse. France. Avril 2011

-Beyruth Animated. Liban. Mai 2011

-ANIMAYO 2011 - VI International Festival of Animated Films, Visual Effects and Video-games. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Espagne. Mai 2011

-Wiz-Art 2011. Lviv. Ukraine. Mai 2011

-Festival international d'animation d'Annecy. France. Juin 2011

-SICAF 2011. 15th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival. Corée du Sud. Juillet 2011

-4th International Animated Film Festival, Animator 2011. Poznan. Pologne. Juillet 2011

- Festival International du Film d’Animation, Animatou. Genève. Suisse. Octobre 2011

-Couch Film Fest. Couches all around the world

-Se-ma-for Film Festival. International festival of stop motion animation techniques. Lugano. Suisse. Septembre 2011

-Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation 2011. Allemagne. octobre 2011

-Un festival c'est trop court. Festival de courts métrages de Nice. France. Octobre 2011

-Festival International du Film d'Animation "Les Nuits Magiques". Bègles. Décembre 2011

-3rd Wire. Segovia. Espagne. Octobre 2011

Credits

Likes

  • Benjamin Cady 4 months ago
    That is absolutely awesome!
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  • Thomas Knowler 4 months ago
    Amazing concept and execution.
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  • Reed 4 months ago
    Brilliant!
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  • ARRAYEWHY 4 months ago
    Great job thinking outside the box ;]
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  • apricot juice 4 months ago
    Incredible! wow! such an amazing job!
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  • YourFriendBen 3 months ago
    Wow! The dimensions!
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  • PEDRO ORENES 3 months ago
    Fantasticoooooo! That´s imagination
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  • Stelios Polychronakis 3 months ago
    Genius!
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  • PrivyFarms 3 months ago
    Stunning work.
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  • Valentina Morianz 3 months ago
    awesome work!
    is it completely animated by hand?
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  • Vitaly Rozhdestvensky 3 months ago
    genius
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  • Péter Vácz 2 months ago
    incredibly smart directing! congratulation! You should send it to a few major blogs to let people know your film!
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  • Short of the Week plus 2 months ago
    I agree w/ Peter, don't hide, this is a great film! You need to let people add it to collections however on the options page.
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  • Sam Morrill staff 1 month ago
    The first transition from 2D to 3D is a brilliant moment.
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  • ERIK RIGHETTI 1 month ago
    Amazing job Léonard!
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  • Daniel Buenrostro 1 month ago
    ¡Impresionante trabajo Léonard!
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  • Vladimir Tomin 1 month ago
    Great!
    Approved: i-olly.com
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  • RAndall Tockes plus 1 month ago
    This is absolutely beautiful. You must have some photos or video as to what went in to this. I cannot even imagine.
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  • kang jeong wan 1 month ago
    aaawesome...
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  • Michael Guzzo 1 month ago
    Fantastic! You deserve all of those awards. But, I wonder if Euclid would have been a better name for your film?
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  • jose 1 month ago
    Only can say, Amazing!!! Great Job.
    Fantastico, Genial. Buen trabajo.
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  • Frodo Kuipers plus 1 month ago
    Nice one! I will going to use it in my animationclasses!
    Keep up the good work!
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  • KurkumaKoi GbR 1 month ago
    very creative idea! love it!
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  • Giorgi Mchedlidze 1 month ago
    amazing!
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  • Lykanthro 1 month ago
    This short simply blown my mind!!!
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  • Abel Fdez 1 month ago
    Simply incredible! Love every frame of it!
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  • Joaquin Ferronato plus 1 month ago
    AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! FANTASTIC! Great amount of work. Very well lighten! The animation is perfect! I can't even begin to think how did u planed this! It's very complex but the final result is amazing!
    Congratulations for the awards! you deserve them!
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  • nacho 1 month ago
    awesome ..!! i'm impressed ..
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  • Friso Tiesema 1 month ago
    Very, very impressive!! I love how you managed to get so many different emotions out of such a minimalistic character :)
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  • Felipe Astete 1 month ago
    csm la cagoo! genial!!
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  • kommak 1 month ago
    you're a genius.
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  • Sumeet Kalindi 1 month ago
    Amazing work.. minimal and sophisticated at the same time..
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  • David C. Perry 1 month ago
    Magnifique! Reminds me of my favorite flicks from the National Film Board of Canada. I can't wait for your next masterpiece!
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  • Miguel Galarza 1 month ago
    Excelente1
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  • Tanya Dimitrova 1 month ago
    how awakening!...bravo
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  • indieanimator 1 month ago
    Brilliant! You have been selected as animation of the day on indieanimator.com
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  • Jonathas Alpoim 1 month ago
    Assustadoramente bom!!!!
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  • Myriam Di Carlo 1 month ago
    impressionnante!!!!!
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  • Joe Moya plus 1 month ago
    simple brilliant and creative...
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  • handoryrong 1 month ago
    Really really great!!!!! I love it!!!!
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  • Bim !!!!
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  • Liannie Rios 1 month ago
    Wow!! I just love it! Muy impresionante y creativo!
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  • Gavin C> Reed 1 month ago
    Bravo! An animators animation.
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  • WHAT A GREAT JOB!!!! Really awsome!!!
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  • Meertau P. 1 month ago
    genius indeed!
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  • Tortunejo Pics 1 month ago
    what program did you use?? It's amazing :D
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  • AmariBuddi 1 month ago
    2D to 3D idea was amazing
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  • Caleb Yule plus 1 month ago
    Love it. When it turned 3D my mind was blown. Truly fantastic.
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  • Auke-Jan Weening 1 month ago
    This is about Plato's allegory of the cave right?
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
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  • Javier Quevedo R. 1 month ago
    Good Job! congrats
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  • Sam Surplice 1 month ago
    Really, very awesome work!!
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  • Nir Bar 1 month ago
    Wow, so much work! great stuff!
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  • lyrill jackson 1 month ago
    this is too focused on formalism and meaningless tricks and it does not have style and class, at all. too playful, no obvious soul.
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  • alfavm 1 month ago
    the best of then
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  • Nieves 1 month ago
    Thank you Leonard, you made me and a friend of mine enjoy it very much. My friend would like to ask you about Plato the philosopher.
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  • nirmal david 1 month ago
    sheer brilliance...
    thanks a lot for sharing it..
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  • animatieblog 1 month ago
    Great work!

    We've shared your short film with our readers at animatie.blog.nl/kortfilm/2012/01/03/korte-animatiefilm-plato
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  • Tom Judd plus 1 month ago
    Wonderfully animated! Shared on animade.tv
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  • johnstone corpuz 1 month ago
    i love it!
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  • omontenegro 1 month ago
    muy bueno... felicitaciones!
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  • Stadtfilmer 1 month ago
    great ideas, great work, like it very much ..... is the music composed for just this film?
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  • Firman Widyasmara 1 month ago
    Stunning!! :D Love it!
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  • Filippo Aroffo 1 month ago
    Genius! :)
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  • Eric Sherwood plus 1 month ago
    Holy crap! amazing!
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  • nenen rivera 1 month ago
    creative excellence!
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  • Jonny Bursnell 1 month ago
    Well done that man!
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  • Melmation 1 month ago
    A most excellent piece of work. Well done indeed!
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  • Sahar Levi 1 month ago
    WOW! I am wordless
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  • Jinmin Woo 1 month ago
    Genius :D
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  • smoothy 1 month ago
    One of the best animation's work for me !
    :))
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  • shann biglione 1 month ago
    Devant tant de brillance, j'ai juste envie de dire: merci !
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  • François Mathey plus 1 month ago
    C'est tout simplement génial, un vrai régal, merci. :)
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  • natalia' dufraisse 1 month ago
    super!! ça me fait penser à marc antoine matthieu !
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  • Noodles Map 3 weeks ago
    Excellentissime ! Blogué sur info-graf.over-blog.com
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  • Ying Hsuan Chen 3 weeks ago
    beautiful
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  • johnny song 2 weeks ago
    Amazing
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  • yousef mahmoud 17 hours ago
    inhuman !!
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