Workshops and residencies
The Village Off, the festival's headquarters, is a friendly, welcoming place. Come and visit us, and take advantage of the free image education workshops and exhibitions. Photo exhibitions, film studios, FX make-up... there's something for all ages and tastes.
VILLAGE WORKSHOPS
Shooting studio and FX make-up: Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 from 11am to 6pm at the Village Off
To be enjoyed without moderation, workshops and residencies are open access! Free for all, come and meet the artists and discover their projects between screenings!
Come to the Trouville Music School to discover what they have to offer.
ANIMATION WORKSHOPS
by Laniméa, Xavier Grizon and Camille Tardieur: Weekdays, in registered schools
The rest of the week, we'll be traveling to schools in the region to bring these image education workshops to school groups.
RESIDENCES:
All week at Village Off
Workshop – Film studio by Camille Tardieu and Sabrina Nehmar
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.
A movie set, costumes, make-up, accessories… Join director Camillle Tardieu and cinematographer Sabrina Nehmar to shoot a movie scene. Take a look at the year’s poster and imagine your own script.
Workshop – FX Makeup by Omaya Salman
Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M.
Our makeup artists are dedicated to the labs throughout the week, they also offer workshops to show how to make a “natural” skin or live special effects that transform or embellish faces. Learn how to make small wounds, zombie makeup, scars, scratches… nothing’s impossible when talking about make-up!
Workshop – The world of animation with Lanimea
Lanimea is an animation film school based in Elbeuf, Normandy. They are presenting a workshop to discover film animation in a big studio built for the event. No matter your age, you are invited to initiate yourself to different methods: cartoon, 2D animation on computer, mass animation, film scratching … Our animators share their expertise and allow inquisitive minds to discover what’s behind the scene.
*In registered schools only
Workshop – Animated faces by Xavier Grizon
Intuitive and creative discovery of several stop-motion techniques, from animating objects to bodies and faces.
Students are invited by the instructor in front of and/or behind the camera to experiment with tricks (transformation, disappearance, drawing on the image) made possible by stop-motion shooting. We end the workshop with a quick look at music and sound effects, by adding sound to some of the exercises. The result can be seen directly in the workshop course.
*In registered schools only
Workshop – Outdoor animation by Camille Tardieu
An outdoor animation workshop, combining the well-known pixilation technique with that of “street art animation,” a playful reflection on the notion of continuity in animation. What truly creates the illusion of continuity? Drawing inspiration from a body of pop references and contemporary animated creations shared, particularly via social media, children will have fun creating a short film by modifying the settings and characters while ensuring that the movement created gives the impression of a fluidity of time. All the videos created by the children will form a short music video at the end of the week that they can share.
The workshop aims to stimulate their creativity by showing them that animation is an accessible, broad, and modern tool that can be improvised with all everyday materials.
Exhibit – Fragments d’instants by Steve Perchey
Through this series of photos, the viewer is invited to journey through different fragments of life, captured between silence and emotion.
The images on display weave together landscapes, portraits and everyday scenes in black and white. They highlight the raw beauty of suspended moments, whether intimate, personal or universal.
Some photos evoke the slow passage of time, through long exposure landscapes, while others capture the power of a glance, a gesture, or a moment of vulnerability. Part of this series also bears witness to my wife’s fight against illness. It’s a journey I’ve chosen to document with modesty and sincerity – a strong visual testimony, without pathos, that makes room for dignity, tenderness and resilience.
It’s a multi-faceted exhibition, on the borderline between the documentary and the sensitive, questioning our relationship with the body, time, traces and light.
Phot’Off Gallery – Pierre Crépô
A self-taught, socially committed photographer, Pierre Crépô was a photojournalist with Mainmise magazine and illustrated the counterculture movement in Quebec. He co-founded the photographic magazine Ciel variable and the Montreal gallery Dazibao. For over forty-five years, his work has been exhibited extensively in Quebec and abroad, and illustrated numerous books, magazines, record sleeves and posters. Still photography and image manipulation are the plastic approaches that punctuate and nourish his artistic production. He will be there all week to capture festival moments in photos that will be displayed in the Village.
Phot’Off Gallery – Guillaume Cloup
The images, the encounters, the drinks, the conversations, observing and capturing the moment. He’s an old hand at photography, and yet he continues to marvel at light, color, ordinary scenes or the shape of a cloud, as a child would. He will be there all week to capture festival moments in photos that will be displayed in the Village.
Phot’Off Gallery – Silohé Denis Malingre
With a strong interest in documentary, portrait and film photography, Silohé is now turning her attention to film and photo direction. She’ll be on hand all week to capture festival moments in photos you can see on display in the Village.
