NAG Film

Surreal animation with sand and metal slivers by Ernest Ansorge, Gisèle Ansorge

A young boy, displaying remarkable skill with a lasso, manages to catch and tie up the moon, dragging it forcefully to Earth. His prank unleashes absolute panic among the forest animals and baffles the inhabitants of a nearby village. The king publicly declares that a child has stolen the satellite, but the boy decides to hide his great prize inside a leather sack to keep it safe.

The short film is a direct adaptation of the famous European folk legend of the "Devil's Bridge." It tells the story of a village or a group of monks who attempt to build a bridge over a chasm or a turbulent river, but everything they build during the day is mysteriously destroyed by the Devil at night.

A highly distinctive documentary, conceived as both a making-of and an intimate visual essay, the film dispenses with any fictional narrative to delve into the intimacy of the couple's studio in Etagnières. In it, Ernest "Nag" Ansorge takes the camera to film his wife, Gisèle, in detail during her creative process. The footage captures the patience, precision, and magic of her hands as she works directly on the light table positioned beneath the camera, meticulously detailing the technique of painting, spreading, and modifying the fine grains of quartz sand powder frame by frame.

The Ravens was the couple's first sand animation film and the prelude to a unique work.

A young "social investigator" meets a bohemian Englishman who decides to move in with her, disrupting her daily life and challenging her lifestyle and values.

A dream-like version of the Sabbath in the Middle Ages: one night at full moon, the women leave home to meet with the devil in the woods. Several orgiastic ceremonies later, they all return home at cockcrow. All except for one, the youngest, who is under an evil spell.