The Night Boots / Les Bottes de la Nuit / Nočni škornji

Pierre-Luc Granjon (Am Stram Gram)
2024, France, 12’21”

While his parents are welcoming friends, a child leaves home in the middle of the night and enters the undergrowth, wearing rubber boots. There, a strange beast, curious and solitary, will lead him into the heart of the forest to meet the nocturnal creatures that live there.

Medtem ko starši gostijo prijatelje, deček sredi noči zapusti dom in v gumijastih škornjih vstopi v goščavo. Tam ga nenavadna, radovedna in samotarska zver popelje v osrčje gozda, da bi spoznal nočna bitja, ki tam prebivajo.

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Language: French
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Pinscreen animation

Team

Animation: Pierre-Luc Granjon
Production: Am Stram Gram
Distribution: Pentacle Distribution

Pierre-Luc Granjon

studied at the Applied Art School of Lyon. In 1998, he began his career in animation in the studio Folimage and made his first two stopmotion films: A Little Adventure (Petite Escapade, 2001) and The Other Kid’s Castle (Le Château des Autres, 2003). Following, he directed two cutout paper films, The Child With No Mouth (L’enfant Sans Bouche, 2004, Corridor Studios), and The White Wolf (Le Loup Blanc, 2006, Sacrebleu Productions), which was awarded at festivals worldwide. With Antoine Lanciaux, Pierre-Luc Granjon has also directed and written four 26-minutes puppet films: The four Seasons of Leon (Folimage). He then made The Big Beast (La Grosse Bête, 2013, Les Décadrés Production), Je ne fais que passer (around the Chauvet’s Cave, a film made in plaster) and The Dog (Le Chien, made on Alexeief and Parker’s pinscreen, 2018). He was also first assistant director on The Tower (Wardi, feature film in puppet and 2D by Mats Grodud) made in the studio Foliascope and released in 2019. The Inventor, by Jim Capobianco, is his first feature film as co-director. His short movie called The Night Boots/Les Bottes de la Nuit (pinscreen) is produced by Am Stram Gram Production.