Director: Nicolas Deveaux
Script: Nicolas Deveaux, Grégory Baranès
Animation: Mickaël Lynen, Emmanuel Margoux, Nicolas Deveaux
Lighting and compositing: Nicolas Mrikhi, Tanguy Weyland
Music: Yannis Dumoutiers
Production: Cube Creative Productions
Country: France
Year: 2019
Length: 2’
An elephant is tidying up an empty gym. He secretly dreams to be a basketball champion.
Nicolas Deveaux is an author and director graduated from Supinfocom Valenciennes in France. For the past 15 years, he has been working at Cube Creative where he specialized in creating stories showing realistic animals and environments for TV commercials, giant screen documentaries and edutainment films for museums and theme parks. Following his short films 7 Tonnes 3 and 5 mètres 80, his new creation 1 mètre/ heure features a company of snails performs a slippery choreography on the wing of an airplane. Nicolas Deveaux is also the creator of Athleticus, an original TV series coproduced with Arte France and featuring animals competing in summer sport games.