Nicolas Brault is a multi-award winning filmmaker and Professor teaching the art of animation at Université Laval. In 2000, he won the National Film Board of Canada’s Cinéaste recherché(e) competition. His film Antagonia (2002) won an award at the Cinanima International Animated Film Festival, and The Circus (2011) was nominated for Best Animated Film at the 37th César Awards. In 2012, he developed a series of short non-narrative films and immersive projections exploring the human body. Of this series, Foreign Bodies (2013) won the Off-Limits Award at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, and Squame (2015) received several international awards. The series' newest entry is Entropic Memory (2024).