In Persona: Monique Renault

Psychoderche

A woman is painting her toenails. The usual morning noises of her boyfriend make her nervous. How can she make him understand …

MONIQUE RENAULT
France, 1972, 1:34 min
Music: Rene Köring
Editor: Sarah Mallison
Animation: Monique Renault
Producer: Bernard Legargeant

Psyshoderche

A La Votre

A big woman and a little superman are engaged in an erotic play.

MONIQUE RENAULT
France, 1973, 2:26 min
Music: Rene Köring
Editor: Sarah Mallinson
Animation: Monique Renault

a-la-votre

Swiss Graffitti

The creation of the world, looked at and corrected by two women.

JACQUELINE VEUVE, MONIQUE RENAULT
Switzerland, 1975, 6:05 min
Music: Talal Drouby
Editor: Edwige Ochsenbein
Animation: Jacqueline Veuve, Monique Renault
Producer: Jacqueline Veuve

Swiss-graffiti

Weg Ermee!

This is a protest film against all nuclear weapons in the world, to the music of a famous Dutch protest song (“Goodnight, Mr. President“).

MONIQUE RENAULT
Netherlands, 1982, 2:20 min
Music: Boudewijn de Groot
Animation: Monique Renault
Producer: Roos Molleman

Weg-ermee_klein

Leve De Seksuele Revolutie

(Long Live The Sexual Revolution)

A man does the family planning, preparing future love-making sessions with his partner, without worrying about wether the desire is mutually felt. She doesn’t seem to have the same desire as him, or rather not quite exactly the same.

ELLEN MESKE, MONIQUE RENAULT
Netherlands, 1983, 4:17 min
Music: Bizet
Animation: Ellen Meske, Roos Molleman, Monique Renault

Leve-de-seksuele-revolutie

Blijf Van Mijn Lijf (Hands Off)

“Hands off“ is an educational film, intended as a stimulus for discussion, within the broader campaign against wife battering. It incorporates recorded interviews with women in houses of refuge.

MONIQUE RENAULT
Netherlands, 1985, 16:37 min
Screenplay: Marijke Rawie, Monique Renault
Music: Marinus Metz
Editor: Victorine Habets
Animation: Ellen Meske, Monique Renault
Producer: Roos Molleman

Blijf-van-mijn-lijf

Ingewikkeld

The perverse effects of the (too) traditional sharing of household tasks. Should we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

ELLEN MESKE 
Netherlands, 1988, 1:34 min
Screenplay: Monique Renault

Ingewikkeld

Op Tilt (Day Care)

How can a couple break through the traditional role patterns? Which techniques should women use to convince men that it is necessary to share? Here, a man discovers that taking care of a baby is a question of trial and error.

ELLEN MESKE
Netherlands, 1988, 2:40 min
Screenplay: Monique Renault

Op-tilt

Pas A Deux

Two couples of dancing partners continually transform into different appearances, including numerous famous historical and pop culture characters.

MONIQUE RENAULT, GERRIT VAN DIJK
Netherlands, 1988, 5:36 min
Editor: Gerrit van Dijk
Animation: Monique Renault, Gerrit van Dijk
Producer: Cilia van Dijk

Pas-a-deux

La Donna E Mobile

A journey into male fantasies seen through the eyes of a woman, based on the famous aria from Verdi’s Rigoletto. The duke of Mantua dreams of nudes, languishing beauties. The women depicted recall famous paintings: Matisse, Ingres, Botticelli, Degas; revealing the beauty of a pose or the sensuallity of a gesture.

MONIQUE RENAULT
Netherlands, 1993, 3:40 min
Music: G. Verdi, sung by Nicolai Gedda
Animation: Monique Renault

La-donna-emobile

L’Alliance

Is there a life after separation?

MONIQUE RENAULT
France, 1995, 2:05 min
Animation: Monique Renault
Producer: Sarah Mallinson

L-alliance

Holy Smoke

A woman writes a letter and looks back on the most important cigarettes of her life.

MONIQUE RENAULT
Netherlands, 2000, 9:10 min
Music: Wouter van Bemmel
Editor: Frans van der Staak
Animation: Esther Dijkstra, Petra Dolleman, Carla van Leeuwen, Monique Renault
Producer: Frans van der Staak

Holy-smoke