Jean Knoertzer is a French

French people

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 animator

Animator

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 and film director

Film director

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. He has released many animated films in France

France

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Animation films

His most important work is Itaf

ITAF

Itaf is an animation film released in 1998 by Jean Knoertzer. It is the story about a young camel named Itaf and a boy named Joan. They wish to discover secrets of the desert....

, released in 1998. Jean Knoertzer received the Silver Clap prize at the Sens

Sens

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 Film Festival. This film is the story about Itaf the camel

Camel

A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as humps on its back. There are two species of camels: the dromedary or Arabian camel has a single hump, and the bactrian has two humps. Dromedaries are native to the dry desert areas of West Asia,...

 and Joan, a young boy. They are inseparable friends who have strange and fabulous encounters. The story continues with a new chapter in Itaf Final.

Léonard is a comical film. It portrays a painter Léonard and his desire for his most beautiful painting.

Jean Knoertzer also made Junior, an adventure story. Junior lives in a strange universe with monster

Monster

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s. This is the first series for television made with color pencils.

All of these animation films used the traditional cel

Cel

A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Actual celluloid was used during the first half of the 20th century, but since it was flammable and dimensionally unstable it was largely replaced by cellulose acetate...

 technique.

Filmography

• Itaf
  ITAF
  Itaf is an animation film released in 1998 by Jean Knoertzer. It is the story about a young camel named Itaf and a boy named Joan. They wish to discover secrets of the desert....
  
   (1998) color (cel)
• Léonard (2002) color (cel)
• Mont Léonard (2002) color (cel)
• Junior (2006) color (drawing)
• JUNIOR JUNIOR (2009) color (drawing)
• Dimanche
  Dimanche
  Dimanche , also known as Dimanche - Le Journal d'un Seul Jour is an artist's book by the French artist Yves Klein...
  
  (2006) color (cel)
• Junior Titans (2009) color (cel)
• OSKI (2010) color (cel)
• CARTOON studio (2009)(documentary) color (cel) 44 mn
• A222 (2010) color (cel)
• GOLDORAK (2010) color (cel)

External links

• Le Grenier D' Itaf (in French)