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Mathieu Labaye's short-movie, Camera etc (Belgium, Liège): http://www.camera-etc.be
Great tribute to his father Benoît Labaye, suffered from a multiple sclerosis at 29 years old. Benoît Labaye had been confined to a wheelchair since age 40 and died at 55 years old the 04.22.2006, as a result of a pneumonia.

In the movie, you can hear Benoît Labaye speaking:

"I think it's by the movement you appropriate your own life. By the freedom to come and go, to have gestures of love, tenderness, anger, whatever. When you are deprived of movements, as I am and as a lot of other people are, I think if you want to survive, you must reinvent the movement differently. And so what happens inside my head isn't purely brain, purely intellectual. It's a way of recreating an inner space which is also my freedom."

"When you live a severe handicap, when you live absolutely still, dependent, you live, in fact, something that can't be shared, that can't be easily expressed, which you can't easily talk about. Because when two people talk, to be able to understand each other, they need to have a minimum of common experience between them, to speak of something they both know from some form of experience."

"Sure, the stillness, the handicap, brings you to the conclusion and to the gradual acceptance that there's a certain number of things that you can't do. But conversely I think it opens a whole bunch of new possibilities, notably with inner freedom, inner space, but also with the way you can come in contact, in relation with others.
I think there is in the handicap, in the disease, a lot of potentiality. The human being is inexhaustible at the level of desire, of energy, of inner strength. Ans it's something you discover with maybe more urge, more intensity, when you're deprived of movement."

http://www.proxiliege.net/index.php?page=article&id=859&idrub=24
http://www.neuroplanet.com/fr/index.asp?chap=nouv&schap=1
http://murielgerkens.be/spip.php?article55

court-métrage de Mathieu Labaye, Camera etc (Belgique,Liège): http://www.camera-etc.be
Magnifique hommage à son père Benoît Labaye, atteint d'une sclérose en plaques à 29 ans. Dans un fauteuil roulant à 40 ans, Benoît Labaye s'est éteint le 22.04.2006 à l'age de 55 ans des suites d'une pneumonie.
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[MrsHoek]

Love love love love this!!

[lyndaluckylyll]

@MrsHoek

Yes !!! Mathieu Labaye is a great animator isn't it ?

[uddiptalukdar]

Amazing!!! Loved and actually blown over by the content. I consider myself lucky that I could see this in my lifetime....

[magaliaussie]

Translation Part3:

Immobility and handicap, tend to make you slowly realize and accept that there's a certain number of things you can't do. But on the other hand, I also believe that it allows you to open to other possibilities, like internal freedom, internal space but also your encounter with other people. I think that in the handicap and this illness, there is actually a big potential.

[IGottaPickle]

I wanted to pause it to see all the different people, but the music keeps me from stopping it

[johndangerquinn]

Unbelievable.

[anubseran4774]

i just came here cuz i tough this had to do something with orgasms....

[mineofGod]

@mineofGod And then I was like, "wtf?" again, but I'm pretty stoned.

[mineofGod]

At first, I was like "wtf?" and then I was like "This is the coolest thing ever."

[MRB34N5]

Not to offend in any way but is some of this rotoscoped? The animation was that amazing

[noobdles]

the dancing bit on the white background remind me of an Apple commercial, anyone else think they got the idea from this short?

[gcharb2d]

Mind blowing, and being an animator myself I can appreciate the amount of work that was put into this, chapeau!

[Oecobius]

Wonderful animation!

The dancing portion kind of reminds me of an old animation (80s or early 90s) that had a couple dancing and constantly transforming into various different characters (mostly characters from preexisting sources).