Nine Squares — A repurposed intro sequence

A cancelled commercial job initially intended as an intro sequence. Stripped of its context – and laid on top of a recording of John Philip Sousa’s ‘The Gladiator’ – an absurd and repetitive short film emerged...






Film Credits
Design and Animation
Nicolas Ménard
Additional Animation
Anne-Lou Erambert, Joe Sparrow
Producer
Greet Kallikorm at Nexus Studios
Music
John Philip Sousa (Public Domain Mark 1.0)

Two components shaping the film's vernacular are the hand drawn camera zooms and the snappy ellipses.

The film was entirely drawn in Adobe Photoshop.

The storyboard