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When I Sing is a self-initiated short film conceived and directed by Malota, produced by Brut Works. It starts from something personal: the way singing can lift you out of a state of mind and take you somewhere else entirely.
The film follows that experience frame by frame. A single character, facing the camera, moving through the emotional arc of a singer: the vulnerability of exposing your voice, the resistance, and what happens when you finally stop holding back.
The film works through tension rather than explanation. The character doesn't perform for the viewer: she endures, resists, and eventually surrenders to the music. The drawing style is deliberately spare, just enough to carry the emotion. The less it explains, the more the viewer recognises.
Made with traditional frame by frame animation and original voices and instruments recorded for the piece. Selected at Animac and Anima festivals.

When I Sing

A short film about how it feels to sing.

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Ten years in, Bounty Banana decided to mark the anniversary not with a retrospective but with a film. inTENsity is a portrait of a decade: their creative life, the people around them, the Paris they work in. Not a highlights reel. An atmosphere.
The title comes from a scene in Lost in Translation where a commercial director keeps asking Bill Murray for more intensity. For Bounty Banana, that word captures something real about how they work and who they are. It also became the brief: a film that had to feel like them, at full charge.
The occasion was also the unveiling of a redesigned B/B logo. But a logo alone was not enough. It needed, as they put it, more inTENsity.

InTENsity

A 10-year anniversary film for directing duo Bounty Banana, co-produced by Brut Works.

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Border Hopper is a short film directed by Nico Casavecchia, co-produced by Brut Works. It follows Laura, a Latinx filmmaker who discovers a supernatural way to navigate the U.S. immigration system. The film operates as a satire of bureaucracy, combining magic realism with elements of horror.
Brut Works developed and produced the entire animated universe of the film. The project was selected at Sundance and Palm Springs ShortFest, among others.

Border Hopper

A live action and animation hybrid about navigating the U.S. immigration system as if it were a video game.

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One sequence. Every artist in the collective contributed one frame, drawn in their own style, without instruction on how it should look. No shared aesthetic, no visual brief, no uniformity imposed from above.
The result is a shot that changes with every frame. Different line weights, different palettes, different ways of understanding the same body in the same moment. What holds it together is the movement, not the style. The action stays continuous while the visual language underneath it keeps shifting.
It could have been a simple transition between two scenes. Instead it became the most honest thing in the film: proof that the collective isn't a concept, it's a practice. Every artist brought their own obsessions to the same four seconds of screen time.
That's what the collective actually is: not a shared aesthetic, but a shared willingness to work inside the same frame. The Jump made that visible in 24 frames per second.

The Plunge

A short film about fear. And the second before you jump.

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Momoguro is an original IP developed by Brut Works' ECD Martin Allais and director Nico Casavecchia, in collaboration with Baobab Studios. A game franchise built around a world of characters: strange, expressive, and designed to expand.
Baobab Studios commissioned Brut Works to produce the teaser that would introduce the franchise. The piece was directed by Nico Casavecchia, with Bonkers Animation as production partner. The objective was to give audiences a first glimpse of the Momoguro world: its atmosphere, its characters, and the logic of the universe they inhabit.

Momoguro Teaser

A teaser for Momoguro, an original game franchise created by Martin Allais and Nico Casavecchia.

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A short film produced by Brut Works, conceived as a homage to Gerald Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals". Directed by Maliboo.
Between commercial projects, the studio makes room for work with no brief and no client. Durrell was one of those moments: a collective effort built around a book, a world, and the question of what visual language it deserved.
The source material set the tone. Durrell's writing is precise and affectionate, full of observed detail and dry humor. The film needed a visual register that could hold that same quality without illustrating it literally. That's where the research started.

Durrell

No brief, no client. Just Durrell.

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Brut Force is a cadavre exquis: each artist drew without seeing what came before, trusting the next hand to carry it forward. Different directors, different obsessions, no shared brief. The result is a single piece that holds all of them.
The visual territory it moves through reflects what each artist brought: vintage science fiction, inner spaces, abstract landscapes, evolution, chaos. Not a theme imposed from outside but what happens when you let every voice in the room speak at once.
This was the first time Brut Works made a collective personal project in this format. It became, before the studio had the word for it, a manifesto: this is how the collective actually works. Different voices. One piece. Real humans.

Brut Force

A collective film made by every voice in the studio. One piece, drawn blind, hand by hand.

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Myth Busting is an animated series produced for an open call by Talenthouse and the United Nations, made during the pandemic. The brief: take the misinformation circulating about COVID and dismantle it, one myth at a time.
The studio treated it as a collective exercise. A series of short pieces, each one tackling a different myth with the same visual approach: loose, handcrafted, direct. The kind of work that needed to travel fast and be understood immediately, without losing the character that makes Brut Works what it is.
A project made at a strange time, by a collective that found it genuinely useful to have something specific to make.

COVID 19 - Myth Busting

An animated series about COVID myths, made for the United Nations.

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Not every project needs a client brief.This is where Brut Works thinks out loud: experiments made for the sake of making it. No brief. No deliverable. Just the work.

Our imagination runs wild and we believe vision is game. A selection of our short-format original content.