Day 2, here is "Neige" for Dionysos, definitely my favorite music video.

It was the opportunity for me to meet the french band Dionysos. I thank again Georges Hanouna and Nicole Hanouna, but also Arnaud Le Guilcher who was the product manager at Barclay | Universal. He trusted me several times at this time, in particular by showing "Café Bouillu" to the band. I loved their poetic rock universe and the creativity of their previous music videos. I was excited to have a chance to make a proposal, especially on such a beautiful song. I had no idea at the time that we would end up making 4 music videos and a feature film together.

But Neige was also the starting point of a beautiful friendship with Mathias Malzieu. It was immediately a human and artistic love at first sight. I was extremely stressed about this film because the subject of the song was so important for Mathias. I wanted to make a real artistic proposal while staying as close as possible to the subject and therefore to Mathias, whom I didn't know yet. I was terrified of not being right because my mistakes could hurt him.

A telephone conversation with Mathias was decisive, I discovered a true artist, who liked ideas and trusting people while being a real force of proposal. I spoke to him about the film's references, including the introductory scene of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, in particular the zoom in the snow globe that allowed us to go back gradually into Kane's memories.

Mathias then made me a proposal that would transform the clip. He had some Super 8 images from his childhood at his father's house and he suggested that I could integrate them into the clip, in the spirit of "Hurt", Johnny Cash's last music video. A week later, I got the reels back, worried that they would be damaged during the digitization process.

Anyway, we then prepared the shooting and I thank Thomas Letellier for his beautiful cinematography, Gregory Monro, a lifelong friend who worked hard on the production management, the whole technical team and especially Yann Le Verre who did a magical job of decorating even though we only had a very small budget for the shooting. He had prepared a snow globe that was supposed to be a copy of the one we were going to make in 3D. He did a fantastic job, it looked great, you could even light it from the inside. Unfortunately, when it was time to fill it with water to shoot, the snow globe made a bad crrrrsplash!!!! noise, dying under the pressure of water.

I see that I write too much, tomorrow I'll make it shorter. I'm going to thank the magicians of the Magiclab Prod animation. Arthur Gordon had once again put together a dream team around me that did wonders for a budget as modest as the deadlines were short (1 month and a half if I remember well...):

A big thank you to Arthur obviously but also Léon Bérelle, Maxime Luère Olivier Vernay Rémi Kozyra Thierry Onillon, Benjamin Devaux, Nicolas Lesaffre, Thibaud de la Touanne and I ask forgiveness to all those I forgot and who allowed this little piece of film to exist.

In particular, a huge thank you to Marc Sylvain, the very talented illustrator who did the character designs !!!!!