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At the end of August, a village in the Alpes de Haute-Provence is hit by an epidemic of dancing plague that sends humans and animals into a trance.
Tohu va bohu is a hybrid animated film, conceived as an ecological fable where different imaginary worlds coexist: Flemish painting, the Provençal countryside and collective trances. The set is made up of drawings and elements modelled in 3D, in which characters filmed in live action move around, as well as animals animated like paper puppets. The film is built around two sources that describe phenomena of uncontrollable collective dancing. A historical event, the dancing plague epidemic of 1518 in Strasbourg, and a short story by Jean Giono, Pan's Prelude, published in 1932. No scientific hypothesis can explain with certainty the cause of ‘choremania’. We can, however, point to mass trauma, and draw parallels between the state of the Strasbourg dancers and individuals in a trance. In Tohu va bohu, the cause of the illness is not explained, but appears to be a collective inter-species delirium, an end-of-the-world zoonosis.
With
Anaïs Barras
Rolando Cruz Marquez
Lou Le Forban
Daniel Peñaranda Restrepo
Kobas Verschuren
Yixuan Xiao
Yurika Sophie Yamamoto
choreographic advice Yurika Sophie Yamamoto
Chef opérateur Bastien Rebena
Ingénieure du son Déborah Drelon
Lumière Étienne Lesur et Jeanne Laruelle
Assistante réalisatrice Rose Duvivier
Assistant caméra Hélios Faustin
Régie Louise Herbert et Lina Laraki
CGI Philippe Cuxac
Montage image Lou Le Forban et Lou Morlier
Etalonnage Baptiste Evrard
Détourages fonds verts Thibault William
Montage son Titouan Dumesnil, Angèle Desrumaux, Antoine Cottais
Composition sonore Lou Morlier
Bruitage Gilles Marsalet
Mixage Yannick Delmaire
Recorders Geoffrey Durcak, Luc Aureille et Tom Nollet
A production by
Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains