ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, INC

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE, INC

PRODUCTION: CONDOR & JEAN-PAUL FRENAY
DIRECTOR / EDITOR / COMPOSITING: Jean- Paul FRENAY
LEAD 3D ARTIST / COMPOSITING: SANDRO PAOLI
3D ARTISTS: Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators: Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design: Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8
STORYBOARD: PASCAL DEGRUNE

STILLS

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

AWARDS + RECOGNITIONS

2011 Second Place of the Non Narrative Category @ Cutout Festival, EM
2010 Honorable mention for Artificial Paradise, Inc @ Fargo Film Festival, USA
2010 Nominated for Best technical Realisation @ Animago Award, DE
2009 Staff Picks, Vimeo

PUBLICATIONS

2011 Pixelarts Magazine Issue 24
2010 Offf Paris Print Catalogue
2010 Repérages issue 68 DVD Expériences #06
2010 Movie Creation magazine issue 3
2010 Realflow Case Study
2009 Stash Issue 61

SHOWCASES + SCREENINGS

2014 Finalist @ Digitalgraffiti, FL
2013 TV screening @ France 4 Nuits 4-0 : En route pour le Futur
2013 Official Selection Ascona Film Festival, CH
2013 Official Selection 2nd International Motion Festival, CY
2012 MudasFest, PT
2012 Moscow International Circle of Light Festival, RU
2012 Secuencia Cultura Colectiva, EM
2012 Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, LA
2012 Broadcast on shorts.tv
2011 Official Selection Cutout Festival, EM
2011 TV screening Best Of CutOut Fest 2011
2011 Official Selection Spasm festival, MTL
2011 TV screening SHORTS INTERNATIONAL
2011 Scopitone, Nantes, FR
2011 The FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011 One dot zero Robotica @ EMPAC festival, NY
2011 Dailymotion carte blanche Cinéma Brut Festival, FR
2011 Dailymotion special screening Sonisphère Festival, FR
2011 Festival of Nations, AT
2011 Futur en Seine, FR
2011 Tabor Film Festival, HR
2011 Backup Festival, DE
2011 Worldwideshortfilms, CAN
2011 The Byron Bay Film Festival, SA
2011 TV screening with interview @ Canal+ Mensomadaire “De la 3D plein les yeux”
2010 IdN World
2010 RedBull TV
2010 Official Selection Altered States, Vimeo Festival,USA
2010 Official Selection robotica, One dot zero, UK
2010 Official Selection Multivision International Festival Of Animated Arts, RUS
2010 Official Selection SIGGRAPH Asia, JPN
2010 Official Selection Ozu 2-Short Film Festival, IT
2010 Official Selection St. Louis International film festival, USA
2010 Official Selection Lille’s International short film festival, FR
2010 Official Selection Anim’est, ROU
2010 Official Selection FICFA, CAN
2010 Official Selection ReAnimania, Int’l animation film festival, ARM
2010 Official Selection Split International Film Festival, HRV
2010 Official Selection Sohoshorts, UK
2010 Official Selection Cortodrome Festival, IT
2010 Official Selection Webcuts, DE
2010 Official Selection International Film Festival Detmold, DE
2010 Official Selection MG fest, USA
2010 Screening @ Festival Nemo, FR
2010 Official Selection Festival des très courts, FR
2010 Official Selection Un Festival C’est Trop Court, FR
2010 Official Selection Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, BE
2010 Showcased @ Lumen Eclipse “Somatic Death, Soma Life” project, USA
2010 Official Selection ANIMA, BE
2009 Showcased @ H+ Summit, USA
2009 Official Selection, Austin Museum of Digital Art’s 47th Digital Showcase, USA
2009 Showcased @ Brainfeeder sessions Future cinema series, USA
2009 Official Selection Villeurbanne Short Film Festival, FR
2009 Official Selection Optica Festival, ESP
2009 Official Selection Kinofest, RO
2009 Showcased @ Playgrounds Festival, NLD
2009 Official Selection Festival Media 10/10, BE
2009 Official Selection wow+flutter, One dot zero, UK
2009 Official Selection for the Autodesk Showreel Siggraph

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