And Then the Bear
That very night, houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. Hordes of children will come together and howl as they dance alone on the ashes like wild bears. It only takes one shout to wake them all from their slumber!
- France
- 2019, 14 min
- Director: Agnès Patron
- Director of photography: Nadine Buss
- Editor: Agnès Patron
- Screenplay: Johanna Krawczyk, Agnès Patron
- Music: Pierre Oberkampf
- Art Director: Agnès Patron
- Producer: Ron Dyens
- Production: Sacrebleu Productions
Agnès Patron
Agnès Patron is a French director, writer, editor, and animator. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where she directed her first two animated shorts, La valse du pendu (2009, official selection at Clermont-Ferrand, Dresden, Stuttgart, Animafest, and Annecy) and La veuve Caillou (2011). She then co-directed Chulyen, histoire de corbeau (2016), a short film awarded at festivals in France and abroad. She worked with the same team on her latest project, L’heure de l’ours (2019).