My projects

 
My short films
 
You can watch the shorts through youtube links that are not-listed. They are destined to a personal use. For copyrights sakes, please don’t share these links on social medias. Apart from that, watching is free and unlimited!
 
 
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MATTHIEU & MATHILDE

When Matthieu, who is usually quiet, is about to go on a long trip to Argentina, his little sister, Mathilde, tries to make him talk about feelings. She gets upset, but he has an idea, a perfect plan to say goodbye to her, in a way that only belongs to them.

Fact sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi, DOP Tom Orliaguet, assistant director Clémence Würz, assistant DOP Raphaël Rivière, sound Johan Cado, script Anaïs Theibaut, PA Félix Aujard and Romain Santiago.
  • Screenplay Mathilde Rossi and Matthieu Carle.
  • Shot in Toulouse’s countryside (Lavalette, Beaupuy).
  • J’irai où tu iras, Céline Dion et Jean Jacques Goldman.
  • In partnership with le théâtre de la Cité, la troupe AtelierCité. Pair drawn, writing and directing together.
  • Matthieu Carle, Mathilde Rossi.
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NETTLES QUEEN

Violette is invited by Fiona to take a look at her mother’s flower greenhouse. When the two are talking, Fiona offers to Violette, a botanical fan, a mysterious gift, a rare and toxic plant : the nettles queen. Violette refuses the present, which she finds too dangerous, and Fiona’s behavior changes radically…

 
Fact sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi, shot on December 2020.
  • DOP Tom Orliaguet, Agustina Ariosa, sound Raphaël Rivière, Johan Cado, producer Romain Santiago, PA Félis Izard, Félix Aujard.
  • shot in les serres de Pécarrères,  Saint Géniès Bellevue.
  • Bulletproof, Laroux.
  •  In partnership with le conservatoire de Toulouse.
  • Maëlle Agbodjan, Emma Rizzo.
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FEGUS, BARTOK & POLLY

Fergus, Bartok & Polly don’t know each other. They find themselves on death row, without a single memory of the past. Three chairs are facing them, placed here by God himself. He starts a little game : find out what happened and why they are here in order to have a chance to escape, or else…

Fact sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi over a period of 7 months, from March 2020 to October 2020.
  • Script, characters, sets, animation, editing and color correcting from Mathilde Rossi.
  • English short film, with english and french subtitle files, and demand.
  • Canon reflex EOS 1200D.
  • Original Soundtrack composed, recorded, and mixed by Victor Basier, student in film music school in CRR Annecy, France. His website : Victor Basier.
  •  Listen to the full Soundtrack on SoundCloud here.
  • Stop motion technique : photos taken that, at a certain pace, form a moving image. A few things about stop motion.
  •  Software used : DragonFrame, professional stop motion software.
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Ghost Choir

Death is alone in the great beyond, a sad and gloomy place, surrounded by these mutic ghosts. When one of them starts to sing, Death has an idea : organize a ghost choir. During her quest to recruit singers, she’s going to face her own power.

Fact sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi, DOP Thibault Puech, Assistant Jayeon Park.
  • Script, costumes, editing, color correcting by Mathilde Rossi.
  • Shoot at the Terre Cabade cemetery , à Toulouse.
  • Sony A7S, and Zoom H4N
  • Original Soundtrack composed, recorded and mixed by Pierre Gallas.
  • Extract from Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by the Andrews Sisters, 1941.
  • The short film was a theme-free exercise called “Anyway”, not more that 6 minutes, in January 2020.
  • Tilia Weevers, Olivia Rossi, Anne Gardes, Romano Pinard, Pauline Costa, Nicolas Bon.
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THE BIG LEBOWSKI

For a school exercise of reconstitution, we chose a scene from the movie The Big Lebowski, by the Cohen brothers, 1998. The exercise consisted of building the exact same set and make the exact same scene, in order to understand and approach construction techniques of a cinema set.

Fact Sheet
  • Set created by Mathilde Rossi, Léa Jade Aumonier, Martin Rivet, Naomi Aittahar, Thibault Puech, Lisa Gallo, Matias Guilbaud, Lilou Negre-Pullel, Julien Gamarde.
  • Shot at the ENSAV set in December 2019.
  • Set creation took several weeks between November and December 2019.
  • The first step was the script breakdown. That step helped to creat a construction plan of the set. Divided in 3 zones, the set gives an impression of depth.
  • The light plot allowed a reconstitution as accurate as possible.
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THE AGENCY

Gustave wins a ticket to go on a vacation with a magical agency that finds the perfect trip for each winner. But Gustave is picky and the agency boss is getting impatient.

Fact Sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi, Léa Jade Aumonier, Martin Rivet, Thibault Puech, Simon Néaumet.
  • Shot on 16 mm Paillard BOLEX film, edited on old editing station (cutting film with scissors!)
  • Shot at the ENSAV set and in Toulouse in April/May 2019.
  • The soundtrack is non-synchronous and is there to simply give an ambiance. We took some sounds in an instrument shop called Djoliba in Toulouse. Edited with ProTools.
  • The short was made for the B-A-BA exercise. The goal was to play with insides and outsides alternatly. Techniques were used to connect the two places narratively, places that have nothing in common geographically.
  • Ilyès Beloufa, Philippe Canizarès, William N’gbala.
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SPARKLING MEMORY

Sparkling memory is a short documentary around Sylvain Rondi, astronomer at the Pic du Midi observatory of Bigorre, Tarbes, France. Throughout his passions for nature, science, micro and macro, he asks metaphysical questions of heritage, of memory.

Fact Sheet
  • Directed by Mathilde Rossi, Léa Jade Aumonier, Martin Rivet.
  • Shot at pic du Midi de Bigorre and Tarbes, France.
  • Camera Sony A7III, Zoom H4N.
  • The short is in French, without subtitles.
  • The exercise was a short documentary with the following theme : “portrait”. The goal was to make a portrait of an interesting profil of our choice.
  • Sylvain Rondi, and his father André Rondi.
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