Déjeuner sur l'herbe - Animation Short Film 2019 - GOBELINS 

I know it's an unusual interpretation, but to me this is about a man who didn't believe in emotions and attachment, but fell in love with someone and discovered he too, despite his firm belief in the rational and logic, was prone to a heartbreak. He suffered because it basically it was such an alien idea that ended up dismantling everything he ever believed in, going through a harsh period of mourning his values, until he could finally admit he was also a person with emotions and vulnerable to love. But he still thought it was a shameful thing and because he had built his life completely disregarding everything that couldn't be rationally explained, he was sure no one would believe him. Except everyone knows about emotions and love out there and he was perhaps naive/a fool to think people wouldn't get it, since it's literally out there, not such an alien thing after all.

I love how Jesus is just at the door like 👁 👄 👁 ✌️

I feel like nobody is talking about the trauma angle of this entire thing? the narration and symbolism throughout implies that something really traumatic happened to him as a child that is connected to the church--something he seemingly doesn't speak about or confided in anyone towards rather than coping with what happened and processing the trauma he discards it, quite literally, internalizing it to the point that he conflates this traumatic aversion to to a conviction or an ideology he has a lot of pent up negative emotion but rather than allowing himself to experience it he rejects his negative emotion entirely I think the DENIAL element of this whole piece really solidifies that denial, by both himself and everyone around him, is a reoccurring theme. He's so afraid of his experiences and convictions being denied, likely because that happened to him with his trauma--so he's terrified to open up and be emotionally vulnerable, because he knows it will be disregarded. Like the lacewing, he lashes out and attacks everyone that tries to get close because he's so terrified of that rejection Just like the potential experience in his childhood shatters his preconceived, comfortable notion of what life is, and forces him to look critically at his entire system of belief he literally goes MUTE because he is SO AFRAID of people not believing him and disregarding his experience, and in the short, we see him go through a physical manifestation of the stages of grief, only to arrive at reconstruction and turn away because of his fears while anything can be traumatic, the specific way he reacts to his beliefs being shattered is very specific and implies something much deeper. While I think the entire short is symbolic, the ending is what really cements the theme for me and makes me believe this is about more than just the shattering of his convictions--when he's speaking to the camera, his words are extremely clear "I know no one will believe this, but that's just the way it happened" "If you had stayed longer, you would've seen it." These statements are very potent for survivors--you can really feel the weight of them while we understand that the UFO was a facade, and so does he, that doesnt change the weight of the emotion he felt, which I think is what this short is trying to communicate even if you dont see the source of somebody's trauma, that doesn't mean the impact it has on them emotionally just goes away. The UFO was both a metaphor for his trauma and a manifestation of it. While it wasn't real, he believed it was, and it had such a profound effect on him, because once the convictions he'd used to hide his feelings were stripped away, he was forced to confront the messy nature of his trauma, he realized that what happened to him wasn't rational, and neither was the way it affected him. there wasn't a greater truth, higher power, or moral message behind what happened to him that he could rely on. At the same time, though, he shouldn't need to prove the existence of his trauma--whether or not it has a secret meaning, or can be proven, he deserves an outlet to express it.

I love how it looks like an alive comic book, and the music and voice actor choices were spot-on! Such a bizarre story!

Beliefs and Idealisms (conviction) are very dangerous thing to oneself when you get proven the oposite. It'll break you. That's why we always should keep an open mind.

it almost looks like WE are the aliens, pulling away as they stare at us in the the last shot...

Sometimes our knowledge could put us in the spotlight or alienate us, depending o what we know and what it is we're trying to share.

Petillant, singulier, poetique... bravo c'est vraiment de l'art

Absolitely phenomenol. So poetic and symbolic. You can see the Paasion in Every aspect of this animimation. Just... Ugh..

Un sans faute. Ces décors et cette ambiance, dingue.

In the end, his arrongance ans his aversion to anything that wasn't absolutely scientific was what really broke him

J’ai beaucoup aimé la délicatesse de l’animation, entièrement tournée vers la narration. Une œuvre très mature. Bravo.

A similar thing happen to me in my life. There comes a point where you become a witness and you can no longer deny it.

A brilliant short flim the animation the writing and the frames all lovingly crafted!

God this short animation is spectacular. One of your best so far.

Jocelyn charles style is just the best!! This shortfilm is all i asked for.

Always love a story with unconventional occurrences and the emotions they might put in a person

now wondering if those students like wes anderson... anyway, loved it!

Wow! This was great. The emotions shown were so well done and I just love the art style.

Beautiful, beautiful, just beautiful

Magnifique ! Bravo à toute l’équipe !

Everything about this is top notch. Amazing.

I loved this one. The theme was great and so was the narrator

Tout simplement magnifique !

This was pretty amazing. The story was nicely well done and the narration was awesome!

Incredible, this touched me deep. Brilliant narration, congrats

What an awesome art/animation style!!

So glad I discovered this channel 💛

Pretty clever animation, and story line!

Formidable posee en escene et profonde proposte conceptuelle. Felicitations.

Aussi bon qu'un épisode de Love, Death, Robots!!!

This is lovely.

That's so good!!!!!! Good job!

Ça c'est bien dépaysant comme on aime

Wow ! Brillant ! Rien à dire sinon bravo !

Brilliance

Perfect qoy, perfect

thats brilliant

brillant animation

Big up à la grande église de la zététique en ligne !!

Bravo!!!!

Legitimately htf did I even get here, I can't even remember what I searched up lol.

Joli !

Really cool art style and really neat idea

Really great story behind the whole animation which has amazed me, also does anyone reckon what the style of shadows on Etienne's face is?

Ooof... homeopathy. I feel for him with that one though. Also spot on with how even the most reasonable/logical can get pulled into obsession via the very denial of emotion they pride themselves in. Beautiful art style as well.

C'est pas mal, mais la science est basée sur des fait, pas des convictions. C'est la définition de la science. Ça n'a pas de sens le fait qu'il ait ses convictions aussi facilement ébranlées, alors qu'au contraire n'importe quel scientifique digne de ce nom se régaleraient à étudier le phénomène.

Someone explain plz

THIS IS AMAZING! But I am a little bit lost on what the message is meant to be. The animation is so good though!

Intéressant, mais je trouve que ses convictions sont effrité pour peu de chose. Le commun des mortels interprétera cette apparition comme celle d'un vaisseau alien, et c'est ce que notre scientifique semble avoir compris. Pourtant rien ne permet d'affirmer que ce soit ça et pas autre chose, en fait si je voyais une chose pareille ce qui m'interpellerais c'est capacité de lévitation. Et quant bien même ça ne réfute qu'une partie une seule de ses croyances. Du coup que cela suffise à faire s'effondrer son système de croyance ça me parait un peu excessif. Mais bon vu que c'est la composante psychologique dont il est ici question, je comprend que ce ne soit pas le sujet.

Bravo pour l'accent anglais :0

La claque mes kheys. La claque...

I love the art style and aesthetic this has. What's it called? 60s magazine illustration art?

Serait-ce bien le professeur Tournesol à partir de 1:42, en haut à droite? ;)

Unn: shit Yiggan: what? Unn: the invisibility shield is off! Yiggan: what?! Unn: I'm sorry!, I put my coffee mug over the button by accident! Yiggan: were so screwed.

The Scientist is voiced by the guy from the RU-vid that talks about riddles, history and other things.

The volume was off but I had the captions on, and the french-to-english at 1:57 read: "You're as sensitive as you're stupid"

I feel like this film, beautiful as it is, is trying to preach a “skepticism bad, belief good” message. So letting yourself be lied to, deceived, manipulated, and used is good? Engaging in double think where you know you’re believing a lie, but you’re convincing yourself it is true is....good? I know there’s a stereotype of skeptics being jerks, but that’s not always true all the time. What if you have to be a jerk to the “kind” liar who’s trying to emotionally and psychologically twist you around their finger just to get them to leave you alone and stop filling your ears with lies? What if most of the time skeptics are actually chill normal people? I know that there’s this stereotype that “belief” makes us happy, and skepticism makes us depressed and miserable, but what if that’s just propaganda? What if we don’t have to lie to ourselves to be happy? Does going on a walk through the forest and looking at nature fill you with a sense of happiness and content? If so, do you really need to “believe” in UFOs, spirits, homeopathy, or anything of that nature to feel the way you do about natural landscapes? No. Finding a sense of joy in life also doesn’t depend on letting yourself be deceived by a beautiful lie. Have you read the surviving works of Epicurius, or watched a RU-vid video about this ancient Geek philosopher? He lays out how to obtain a sense of Ataraxia, or deep and imperturbable calm in life without belief in the supernatural, and even discouraged such belief. Or the philosophy of Stoicism, and their goal of the mind state of Eudaemonia, which can be obtained irrespective of presence or absence of mystical beliefs. Disbelief, if guided by the proper philosophy, can be a fulfilling way to live.

I think I am early . I can't find that long comments which explains the shorts video . Also , there were No English Subtitles. Anyone , plz help.

Bad marriages don’t disqualify good ones. What that priest did was deeply wrong. Forget religion for a moment. Forget what the world has told you about this Jesus, or how they portrayed him. If it’s true what the Bible says, that “Jesus deeply loves you,” then ask him for yourself, see what Jesus had to say. From what I’ve read, Jesus never wanted that to happen to him or possibly you. In fact it would deeply grieve him, even more than you. If you’ve been hurt by people in the church, by them abusing their free will, I’m so sorry. People will always be naturally flawed, inside the church or not. If Jesus of the Bible is real and truly loves you, then don’t let other’s brokenness keep you from knowing his completeness.

Is... Is that Kim Jung?

I thought the narrator was Pedro Pascal

En Englais

His was so not impressive and difficulty

i love the aesthetic but the actual literal story is a bit odd. also homeopathy is just bollocks.

The person who wrote this has a completely wrong understanding of what science and scientists, or, in fact, rational thinking in general are. No acomplished scientist would have reacted to the event in this way emotionally. He would be exctatic. Science is about open mind, not the opposite. The fact that superficial, infantile views like that are dominating, is the saddest thing about our lives and, more or less, the root of most of our problems. BTW, homeopathy is a dead horse. Unfortunately, the endless efforts to prove its effectiveness have failed beyond any doubt. It is one of the most toxic and dangerous pseudosciences out there.

Try again with an articulate narrator. Or better yet, do it in French. Apart from that, great art, inane story, poor storytelling. Don't visual arts schools borrow writers from written arts schools?