Ars Electronica Festival · 2010
The Man in the Blue Gordini [L'Homme á la Gordini]
🏆 Award of Distinction · Prix Ars Electronica 2010
“The Man in the Blue Gordini [L'Homme á la Gordini]” by Jean Christophe Lie received an Award of Distinction in the Computer Animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2010.
End of the 70’s, an imaginary suburb, the custom is to wear neither underwear nor trousers, only orange tops. With the help of a masked rebel driving a blue R8 Gordini, Mister R and his wife plot a radical clothing revolution and the assault of monochromic orange totalitarianism.
About Jean Christophe Lie
Jean-Christophe Lie (FR), born 1970. His professional career began in the Walt Disney Studios in Montreuil, as assistant animator. Later he supervised the animation of the Triplettes characters in ”Les Triplettes de Belleville“, a film by Sylvain Chomet.
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