“ The sea and its waves is a movie that unfolds like a dream. Its story takes place in Beirut, in the shadow of a hallucinated star which ignites the whole movie. ”

Illustrated celestial visual effects for the 16mm feature film, The Sea and its Waves, by directors Liana & Renaud (Lebanon/France). Produced by Mathieu Mullier-Griffiths, and Alexandre Singer (Kafard Film - France).

Selected and premiered in the ACID sidebar in the Cannes Film Festival 2023.





 
 
The special effects created for this movie were taken from several live drawing improvisations filmed in Beirut in August 2022. Edited at in the South of France in October 2022, and integrated then colored in Paris in January 2023.

The work spans from creating the moon that haunts this city’s sky, interposing clouds, lighting moving headlights and floating boats on a sea of darkness.



Extracts of work in progress.