GWEN ET LE LIVRE DE SABLE - Jean-François Laguionie

Film in restored version, by Jean-François Laguionie

14 x 19 cm / 80 pages + DVD / June 2019

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This book-DVD presents Jean-François Laguionie's film (1985, 65 min.) in a version restored under the direction of the filmmaker and, as the story of this amazing adventure unfolds, the elements that went into making it: sketches, sets, characters, etc.

Young Gwen, adopted by a tribe of nomads, lives in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by sand, where an unknown entity pours out floods of objects, gigantic reproductions of everyday products from our world (suitcases, telephones, clocks...). When the boy she has befriended is abducted by the entity, Gwen sets off to find him.

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• The book

- Preparatory sketches, sets, cut-out characters by Jean-François Laguionie, Bernard Palacios and Nicole Dufour

- « Il était une fois Gwen », text by J.-F. Laguionie

- Technical details of Gwen and the Book of Sand

- Filmography of Jean-François Laguionie

• BONUS

- Une bombe par hasard (1969, 7 minutes) restored by Lumières numériques for the Agence du Court métrage with the support of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.

- « La Belle Équipe » and « Fabriquer La Fabrique », interviews with J.-F. Laguionie (2019)