Ecole MoPA Students Align the Sun and Moon in “La Diplomatie de L’éclipse” Short Film

Clear your mind and set aside eight minutes to get lost in La Diplomatie de L’éclipse, the lyrical, thoughtful, and impossibly resplendent short from five fifth-year animation students at Ecole MoPA in Arles, France.

Played out in a series of dream-like settings that straddle surreality and magic realism, the film follows a diplomat sent by The World Council to negotiate with the Sun and Moon after learning humanity will vanish when the two align in a total eclipse.
 
 
Ecole MoPA La Diplomatie de eclipse Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Ecole MoPA La Diplomatie de eclipse Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Ecole MoPA La Diplomatie de eclipse Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Ecole MoPA La Diplomatie de eclipse Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE

Ecole MoPA La Diplomatie de eclipse Short Film | STASH MAGAZINE
 
School: Ecole MoPA
Director/animator: Clémence Bailly, Sélim Lallaoui, César Luton, Axel Mechin, Achille Pasquier

Music: Titouan Gramain
Sound design: Pierre Duchesne-Bénéteau
VO: Nathaniel Williams