Antoine Schirer

I’m a french motion designer turned journalist & filmmaker.
I try to use nonfiction film, graphics, 3D modelling, visual forensics, to document matters of public interest.

Disclose | Operation Sirli: France's complicity in state crimes in Egypt 9 min|2021
Disclose has obtained hundreds of classified French official documents which reveal abuses committed during a secret military operation in Egypt. The investigation unveils how France became complicit in aerial strikes against civilians.
Role: filmmaking, motion design (with E. Costard) | Journalists: A. Lavrilleux, G. Livolsi, M. Destal
Le Monde | In a Paris suburb, how a police operation turned to chaos 25 min|2021
On 25th June 2013, a 52 year-old mother lost an eye at the hands of the police following the brutal arrest of her two sons. A fresh examination of witnesses videos documents a chaotic police operation and officers’ lies during the court hearings.
Role: research, filmmaking, motion design, 3D modelling | Coproduced with E. Costard, A. Jacquel, L. Roxo
BBC Africa Eye | Lagos Inferno 16 min|2020
An explosion in Lagos, Nigeria rocked the city to its core. BBC Africa Eye asks what really caused the blast that killed 23 people and totally destroyed a girls’ boarding school?
Role: video editing, motion design, 3D modelling | Journalist: B. Hill
Le Monde | Gilets Jaunes: how the police wounded a peaceful protester 15 min|2019
Our open source research, in conjunction with digital modelling, shows how 'Gilets Jaunes' protester Olivier Beziade was the target of rubber bullet fire in the head when he was posing no threat.
Role: research, filmmaking, motion design, 3D modelling | Journalist: A. Balluffier
Mediapart | Viry-Châtillon case: how the police made up false culprits 14 min|2021
Officers truncated or cut out entire sections of what suspects said in custody. They also put pressure on them to implicate other youths from the town.
Role: filmmaking, video editing, motion design | Journalists: P. Pascariello, A. Rouget
Mediapart | How the police sabotaged a Paris demonstration 9 min|2021
Our open source research shows the unlawful nature of dozens of police charges carried out that day. It also documents the arbitrary arrests of demonstrators.
Role: research, filmmaking, motion design | Coproduced with S. Bourdon, A. Rouget, C. Polloni
The New York Times | The Great American Covid Success * 15 min|2020
How America Helped Stop Covid-19. Just Not in the United States.
Role : motion design | Produced by A. Westbrook, A. Stockton & S. Dosani
France.tv & Arte | Dans ton tel 8 x 4 min|2019
Eights young men and women show us what's in their phones, and along with it, a bit of who they are. Feminist, environmentalist, curious, committed. The web series scans their singular practices, but also questions our own.
Role : research, filmmaking, motion design | Co-produced with S. Chekaik-Chaila & Upian
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