News / Apr 2012
A Soft Porn Fantasy
Alex Courtès’ controversial video for Sebastien Tellier just launched on CANAL + and VICE.COM
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News / Apr 2012
Hunter & Bear Travel in Time
Adrien Armanet directs the follow-up of Buzzman’s successful TIPPEX campaign.
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News / Feb 2012
Extreme makeover for LCI
LCI, the News channel, commissioned a complete makeover to our design studio.
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New director / Feb 2012
POETRY IN MOTION
Tell No One are Luke White and Remi Weekes. As individuals they are writers and directors. As Tell No One they experiment with video, collaborating to create work that is uniquely beautiful, poetic, conceptual, and surreal.
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News / Jan 2012
Justice for all
Visual guru Alex Courtès (White Stripes, Kasabian, U2) states his comeback with this striking new video for JUSTICE.
Music Videos Division
Sébastien Tellier Cochon...
Directed by Alex Courtès
Cochon Ville (Pig City) is the first single from Sébastien Tellier's new album, My God Is Blue, and this uncensored video is like watching ironic French disco porn—if there is such a thing, and surely there is.
Justice On'n'On
Directed by Alex Courtès
Justice just unveiled the latest video from their dance-prog opus Audio, Video, Disco, and like previous clips “Civilization” and “Audio, Video, Disco,” it’s a deeply silly piece of expansive bullshit. In Alex Courtes‘s video, naked chicks and skulls and diamonds and various other bits of cosmic ephemera fly through space. It’s both utterly kitschy and convincingly trippy. STEREOGUM.
M83 Midnight City
Directed by Fleur & Manu
Following their array of nominations at the UKMVA, Fleur & Manu strike back with a new video for M83 new single ”Midnight City”. Once again, they create a universe of its own, alternately familiar and bewildering, startling as much as emotional but ceaselessly mesmerizing. The video has already been homepaging on NME, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Fubiz, Vimeo, Stereogum, Dailymotion and the likes. No kid got hurt in the process.
Bag Raiders Sunlight
Directed by Fleur & Manu
Fleur & Manu's new music video for BAG RAIDERS "Sunlight" chronicles a love affair between a zoo employee (who could pass for Scarlett Johansson) and a chimpanzee. The two share a bit of romance, but in the end, wouldn’t you know it, the monkey turns out to be an animal like all the other guys out there. It’s cute, but a little strange nonetheless.
Broadcast design & Communication
France 5 Rebrand | Idents
Directed by Alphabetical Order®
Knowledge is all about making new links and experiences. That's precisely the statement we came up with for France 5's rebrand, thanks to the enlightened judgement of directing duo Alphabetical Order®.
France 5 Santé
Directed by Barbara Soumet-Léman
Health is often approached in cryptic terms by professionals whereas France 5 talks about it in simple terms, which is basically what this promo illustrates, based on play on words that are virtually impossible to translate into english !
France 4 Case Study
We've been busy for a while, working on the on/off air rebrand of France 4. Targeting young adults, this Public Service Channel suffered from a lack of image and a poor distinction within the France Television Group (FTV), often perceived as rather corporate by the potential viewers. Here's the set of devices we created for this complete makeover.
Canal+ La Nouvelle Edition
Directed by Sebastien Cannone
LNE is a News show about people who ARE the News. Once again, we believe in simple ideas. So, simple it is.
Histoire de L'Amérique ...
Directed by David Gray
"Just because they know nothing about us, doesn't mean we shouldn't know anything about them !" This series of 4 promos definitely made its online buzz.
Eurosport Case study
Eurosport, the n°1 pan-European TV channel, broadcasted in 20 languages reaching 120 million homes and 240 million viewers across 59 countries, commissioned our design studio this massive scale rebranding.
TV & Cinema Commercials
Canalsat W.A.T.S.
Directed by Barcelo
CANALSAT is now focusing on content, positioning itself in the entertainment and leisure market, alongside it's credibility in television know-how. To support this new strategy, the bouquet has launched a new communications platform developed by BETC, under the tagline "CANALSAT. LOOK BETTER." The new TV saga depicts a very demanding man watching television, struggling to find something worth watching on regular TV: poor programs, lack of variety, inconvenient viewing times, changing channels infinitely to try and find something.
Greenpeace Victories
Directed by Peter Thwaites
The seeds of Greenpeace were sown 40 years ago today, when a small band of dedicated people set out to change the world, sailing from Vancouver to end US nuclear testing in the Aleutian Islands. Their non-violent direct action captured the public imagination, caused the cancellation of future tests and sparked a movement that grew into the world’s largest independent environmental organisation. Many struggles later, the spirit still lives on in this spot directed by Peter Thwaites as a tribute to each and everyone of them.
GDF SUEZ Genissiat
Directed by Fleur & Manu
The two films Fleur & Manu directed for this campaign both show the point at which the business and actions of GDF SUEZ join together in favour of social responsibility, through concrete examples. Constructed as stories of everyday life, the films show, through a successive chain of events, how the Group's activities can have a positive impact on the lives of everyone.
Digital & Brand Content
Tipp-Ex Dinosaur
Directed by Adrien Armanet
Following on from 2010's massively popular A Hunter Shoots A Bear, French Agency BUZZMAN has created a new twist to the format for Tipp-Ex. We join the same hunter and bear for a birthday party celebration the one year of the previous campaign but, when the fun is interrupted by an incoming meteorite, we're given the option to change the date of the shindig and send the pair backwards or forwards in time.
SNCF 30 Ans TGV
Directed by UFO
To celebrate the 30th birthday of TGV on the 24th September 2011, an exquisite video projection brought the facade of the Gare de Lyon to life. Designed by UFO as an extraordinary journey to the borders of dreams and the imagination, generating amazing sensations and provoking new desires to travel, this event celebrated the true value of the TGV, which has carried nearly 2 billion passengers since its launch.
Chanel Shade Parade
Directed by Patrick Daughters
CHANEL have teamed up with music video director Patrick Daughters to bring us Shade Parade, an ad featuring a delightful dance number by a few sets of well-choreographed hands. Fingertips decked out in shades from Chanel’s latest collection strut down flashy mini-runways flanked with the infamous interlocking C’s—all without missing a beat.
BNP Paribas Mes Colocs
Directed by Riad Sattouf
Written and directed by feature film director Riad Sattouf (Les Beaux Gosses - The French Kissers), the 20 episodes webserie launched in May 2011 has reached over 15 million views and about 45 000 friends on Facebook.