Rene Laloux

Rene Laloux (July 13rd 1929, Paris - March 14th 2004) is a draftsman, painter and sculptor, but more especially the realizer or Co-realizer of several cartoon films famous French.

Biography

Born in Paris on July 13rd, 1929, Rene Laloux works as painter until 1955. From 1955 to 1959, it directs a workshop of painting and assembles puppet shows to the psychiatric private clinic of Court-Cheverny. After two traditional short-measurings, it carries out in 1960 with a team of patients its first short-measuring of animation, “the Teeth of the monkey”, which gains several prices (Emil Cohl, Mannheim, etc). In 1964, “the Idle periods” are its first realization in collaboration with Roland Topor and in 1965, “the Snails” obtains prices with Mammaia, Trieste, Prades and Cracow. It starts in 1969, always with Topor, its first feature film, the wild Planet by which the exit in 1973 is accompanied by a great critical success.

Catalog of films

Short-measurings

  • “Tick-tock” (not animated) (1957)
  • “Achalunés” (not animated) (1958)
  • “teeth of the monkey” (1960), 14 min
  • “idle periods” (1964), 10 min
  • “snails” (1965), 11 min
  • “play” (1975)
  • “the Man-machine ones” (1977), pilot of the feature-length film “Gandahar”.
  • “Control of quality” (1984)
  • “Captive” (1985) the
  • How Wang-Fô was saved (1987), 15 min (according to a tale of the Eastern Nouvelles of Marguerite Yourcenar)

Animated feature films

Its 3 animated feature films are all science fictions.

Appendices

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