Whatever moves is alive by Noémie Marsily

Director, Writer, Animator: Noémie Marsily
Production: Zorobabel
Music: Guillaume Lelièvre
Sound: Christophe Rault – Studio Mima
Sound Mixing: Aurélien Lebourg – La Notte Studio

While slugs move across the kitchen floor, Noémie sketches a portrait of herself that is shifting and fragmented, on the border between the personal sphere and the hubbub of the world.

The construction and deconstruction of the personality of a mother is presented as a constant flow of gaining and loosing, deep love and dependency. Intriguing is the minimalistic use of the drawing lines and its rough style, hectic like a very busy life of a mother with a small child. (Jury Statement – Festival Tricky Women Tricky Realities)

The film takes one by surprise with its way of disintegrating bodies and relationships. With its dissolving boundary lines, it expresses a dissolution of self that one might feel in becoming a parent. (Jury Statement – GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation )

Awards:

Best Belgian Short Film Award and Acquired by Canvas (Belgian Television) at ANIMA – Brussels International Animation Film Festival, 2023
3-Month Scholarship Award at Tricky Women Tricky Realities Festival, 2023
Honorable Mention for “Best Disembodiment” at GIRAF – Festival of Independent Animation, Canada, 2023

Festival Selections :

Lille International Short Film Festival – Lille, France, 2022
Balkanima European Animated Film Festival – Belgrade, Serbia, 2022
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur – Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022
BOGOSHORTS – Bogotá Short Film Festival – Bogotá, Colombia, 2022
Akbank Short Film Festival – Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
International Animation Film Festival of Meknès (FICAM) – Meknès, Morocco, 2023
Festival Courts d’un soir – Montreal, Canada, 2023
IMAXINARIA – Afundación International Animation Film Festival – A Coruña, Spain, 2023
Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF) – Melbourne, Australia, 2023
Mecal – Barcelona International Short and Animation Film Festival – Barcelona, Spain, 2023
Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Annecy, France, 2023
International Animation Festival Fest Anča – Žilina, Slovakia, 2023
Guanajuato International Film Festival – Guanajuato, Mexico, 2023
Insomnia International Animation Film Festival – Moscow, Russia, 2023
Gibara International Film Festival – Gibara, Cuba, 2023
Nikozi International Animation Film Festival – Nikozi, Georgia, 2023
Festival of Animation Berlin – Berlin, Germany, 2023
Weird Market – Valencia, Spain, 2023
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival – Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023
Fantoche International Animation Film Festival – Baden, Switzerland, 2023
Sedicicorto Forlì International Film Festival – Forlì, Italy, 2023
Primanima – Budapest, Hungary, 2023
Animest – Bucharest, Romania, 2023
20minmax Short Film Festival – Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023
Le Court en dit long Festival – Paris, France, 2023
REX Animation Festival – Stockholm, Sweden, 2023
Mumia – Belo Horizonte, Brésil, 2023
Manchester Animation Festival – Manchester, United Kingdom, 2023
Canlandiranlar International Film Festival – Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
Still Voices Film Festival – Ballymahon, Ireland, 2023
GIRAF, Festival of Independent Animation – Calgary, Canada, 2023
Animateka International Animated Film Festival – Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2023
London International Animation Festival (LIAF) – London, United Kingdom, 2023
L’Alternativa – Barcelona Independent Film Festival – Barcelona, Spain, 2023
ANIMAKOM FEST – Bilbao, Spain, 2023
PIAFF – Paris International Animation Film Festival – Paris, France, 2024
Animac – Lleida, Spain, 2024
13th Tehran International Animation Festival – Tehran, Iran, 2024
Beirut Animation Nights – Beirut, Lebanon, 2024
Kaboom Animation Festival – Amsterdam and Utrecht, Netherlands, 2024
Animocje – Bydgoszcz, Poland, 2024
Riga Pasaules Film Festival – Riga, Latvia, 2024
Trois Jours Trop Courts Festival – Castres, France, 2024
Sopot Film Festival – Sopot, Poland, 2024
Hiroshima Animation Season – Hiroshima, Japan, 2024
MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) – Bali International Short Film Festival – Bali, Indonesia, 2024
Monstrale – International Short Film Festival – Halle, Germany, 2024
The Big Cartoon Festival – Moscow, Russia, 2024
London International Animation Festival (LIAF) – London, United Kingdom, 2024
Rencontres Internationales Traverse – Toulouse, France, 2025
Animafest ZAGREB – Zagreb, Croatia, 2025