• Synopsis: Alia is a young gifted magician: whatever she paints becomes alive. However she feels lonely and longs to discover the world of human beings. But she is far from suspecting dangers awaiting her in the city of Maskarad ! … A tale of exploration for finding one’s true identity.

• Animation Techniques:
  • Paint and Sand (development of an original animation technique with liquid paint, cut-out animation of glued colored sands, and traditional animation of powder sands)
• Characters and Sets:
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  • scenes cut : Nathalie Mathé
  • drawings : Jérôme Charton
• Production: in standby (first producer dropped out at the end of 2008, project was submitted for funding grants to CNC’s short films comission, to Centre Image’s artist in residence program and to Annecy Festival short projects competition  in 2009, without success! )

• Synopsis: On a children snack table, silverware comes to life and starts having fun…
• Producer: My Lounge
• TV Broadcast: TF1 Children Programs (2003-2004)
• Credits:
  • Writing, directing, graphism, 3D modeling, textures, shading, and rendering: Nathalie Mathé
  • 3D Animation: Assan Youbi
  • Music and Sound design: Gilles Sivilotto

• Synopsis: A poetic encounter between a voiceless child and a old flute player…

The Voiceless Child (2002) from Nathalie Mathe on Vimeo.

• Credits:
  • Writing, directing, graphics research, 3D modeling, textures, animation, rendering, and compositing: Nathalie Mathé
  • Sound composing: Bruno Moyano
  • Flute: Edgar Nicouleau
  • Song: Marielle André
  • Voices: Thérésia McCearney, Nathalie Mathé
  • In recognition of null‘s work , unstopable storytellers, helping children to discover the power of communication, as an alternative to violence.
• Festivals:
  • Jury Special Price, Youth Film Festival, Bourg-en-Bresse (2004);
  • Honorable Mention, Best Visual Innovation category, International Fest of Cinema and Technology, New York, USA (2006)
  • Youth Film Festival, Stains (2004);
  • International Film Festival, Aubagne (2004);
  • Carrefour des Ecoles, Paris (2003);
  • Villeurbanne Festival (2003);
  • E-Magiciens, Valenciennes (2002);
• TV Broadcast: BeTV, Belgium (2005)
• Conference: “My child is growing up… Is this really normal?” by Bertrand Duccini, Psychoanalyst-psychotherapist, SocioCultural Center of Vergèze (Gard, France), January 22, 2009