Élan Vital is a non-narrative film installation. It began as a series of animated experiments, created quickly using found materials and simple hand made props. In combination with a track created by the Jazz drummer Tancrède D. Kummer, these animations were put together to create a five and a half minute animated short. Élan Vital is a film which tries to get to the root of what animation is and what it can be; the invisible hand of the artist which, through the medium of photography, brings inanimate objects to life.