Nine Squares — A repurposed intro sequence

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A cancelled commercial job initially intended as an intro sequence. Stripped of its context – and laid on top of a recording of John Philip Sousa’s ‘The Gladiator’ – an absurd and repetitive short film emerged...

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Film Credits

Design and Animation

Nicolas Ménard

Additional Animation

Anne-Lou Erambert, Joe Sparrow

Producer

Greet Kallikorm at Nexus Studios

Music

John Philip Sousa (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

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Two components shaping the film's vernacular are the hand drawn camera zooms and the snappy ellipses.

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The film was entirely drawn in Adobe Photoshop.

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The storyboard