This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool
By now it feels like a moot point to state that a good film has emerged from French animation school Supinfocom given their seemingly peerless record of producing student work which consistently tops animation festivals worldwide and racks up online viewing figures which most resemble a gaming leader board. Therefore please feel free to roll your eyes as I say that for his first Supinfocom animation Je m’appelle Nathan, Siward (aka Benoit Bertha) has created a beautifully touching observation of a young boy living with autism.
Since completing Je m’appelle Nathan, Siward regularly found himself fielding questions as to the nature of his personal relationship with someone suffering from autism that afforded him the perspective to authentically portray Nathan in the film. However, no such relationship existed, and Siward vehemently disagrees that sensitivity and truth can only come from direct personal experience. Instead, it was actually the constraints placed on the assignment to ensure that the workload was manageable — only a single ‘real’ character was allowed — which led him to devise Nathan and his interplay with the origami bird after early sketches led to a comment about autism from a former teacher which in turn inspired and led …
By: Mar Belle
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