Short Films by Jérémy Clapin
French animator Jérémy Clapin struck a chord with his unheimlich debut feature, the Cannes Critics Week-awarded, Oscar-nominated "I Lost My Body" (2019), before swerving into live-action with his follow-up, the intimate sci-fi "Meanwhile on Earth" (2024). This series brings together three of the shorts that first marked Clapin as one to watch, his warped and melancholic absurdism suffusing every image in these tales of misfits seeking solace.
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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...
