Meanwhile On Earth
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 89 mins | 2024
Aspiring graphic novelist Elsa (an arresting Megan Northam) is struggling with the disappearance of her astronaut brother Franck, who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from him, but her joy is short-lived: dark forces are behind this reappearance. With its arresting images and ethereal score, the first live-action feature by Clapin—director of the lauded animation "I Lost My Body" (2023)—is a rich, vitally original sci-fi psychodrama.
-
Meanwhile On Earth
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 89 mins | 2024
Aspiring graphic novelist Elsa (an arresting Megan Northam) is struggling with the disappearance of her astronaut brother Franck, who vanished during his first mission. While stargazing one night, she is shocked to receive contact from him, but her joy i... -
Palmipedarium
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 10 mins | 2012
Clapin followed up his acclaimed short "Skhizein" (2008) with this wordless and unsettlingly ambiguous fable about a boy who encounters a scraggly avian creature while duck hunting with his father. It’s a short whose placid surfaces belie a latent, buddi... -
Backbone Tale
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 9 mins | 2004
Clapin’s first short is a game of Tetris as much as it is a love story. It centers on a man whose spine bends at a striking right angle: his eyes can gaze only downwards, his hat perched on the back of his head. The appearance of a woman whose back bends ... -
Skhizein
Directed by Jérémy Clapin | 13 mins | 2008
“I am exactly 91cm from myself,” frets Henry, the central figure in this Annecy-and Cannes-awarded account of a life uncentered. After being struck by a meteorite, Henry finds that he must negotiate to the material world—sitting in a chair, opening a win...
