Some subjects are more difficult to film than others, and insects are one of these. Cokau Lab is a French duo of directors, and they recently released an impressive short film and behind the scenes video about their latest project that is all about filming insects in macro: H2élyos. I decided to talk with the two directors to learn more about shooting insects closely. Who Are Cokau Lab? Could you introduce yourself briefly? Cokau is the name of our duet of directors: Achille Coquerel and Thomas Kauffmann. For how many years have you been working as a duo of directors? In 2013 we created our creative studio, Cokau Lab, dedicated to the production of video content. We’ve started our director’s career at this period. Image credit: Cokau Lab Where/when did you met? When did the idea of working together come out? We met together in a post-production company in 2005 and worked as editor and motion designer, mainly for Nike. In 2010 we decided to be directors and created Cokau to push away our artistic limits through the creation of several experimental videos. During our years of working together, we discovered our rather obvious complementarity. Achille is very competent in video editing, and Thomas is in motion design. Are you always on the same technical/artistic line together? On a daily basis, we are very complementary to our projects. We do not work together by chance; we have a taste for the same things, creative intentions, elegance, sobriety. But just like...
Published By: CineD - Sunday, 5 January, 2020