ELSA SECCO
Elsa Secco works at the edge of what can be seen.
Her animated work explores dreams, fantasmes, manifestation, creative visualisation, and the beyond not as abstract concepts, but as lived processes. Each piece begins with an intention, held and followed until it finds its form.
Shaped by years of musical practice, she brings to moving image the logic of rhythm and transformation, the breath between two states, from imagination to reality, the moment something dissolves and something else emerges. The unexpected is never accidental. It is where meaning lives.
She is interested in what the eye cannot see but the body recognizes, that charged space between matter and the immaterial.
Her work does not seek to illustrate or explain. It seeks to activate something in the viewer that was already there, waiting.
She is a French Award-winning Artist based in Paris with more than 15 prizes and 42 selections: Cristal Award at the International Animation Film Festival at Annecy & Vimeo Staff Pick.
She creates 2D animations films, frame by frame animation. And for the last 2 years, she trains her graphic style with AI.
TedX Motivational Speaker in 2019 about How Motion Graphics can redesign your life.
Adobe France Speaker in 2019: Masterclass and Public Talk about How to develop your creativity.
She has lived in Sydney and UAE.
Cristal for a Commissioned Film at International Annecy Festival (Directed by Robertino Zambrano)
Vimeo Staff Picks (Beeple won one as well :))
Bronze Cube at the 98th ADC Annual Awards in Motion/Film Craft
Vienna Indie Short Film Festival: Best short documentary
Short of the Years: Best short documentary
Hollywood Gold Awards: Best short documentary
Paris Film Awards: Honorable mention, best short documentary
HIFF - HALO International Film Festival: Best short documentary
8 & Halfilm Awards: Best short documentary
GLIFF - Golden Lemur: Honorable mention, best short documentary
Europe Film Festival: Best short documentary
London Movie Awards: Honorable mention, best short documentary
London International Monthly Film Festival: Best VFX
Buenos Aires International Film Festival: Best short documentary
Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift: Best short documentary
Awards
Talks
TedX Talk - France 2019
Adobe Talk - Paris 2019
Adobe (Masterclass) - Paris, 2019
SATIS Talk - Paris, 2025
Mapping Motion Podcast, 2025
Entertain-AI - Montreal, 2026
Le Wagon - Paris, 2026
E-Artsup - Nantes, 2026
Clients
Adidas
National Geographic
Chanel
LVMH
Cartier
Kraftwerk
Chilly Gonzales
L’Oréal
Arte
Interviews
Directors Notes - Whelk Song, 2016
Vice Creators Projects, Whelk Song, 2016
Motionographer - Adidas, 2022
Motionographer, Whelk Song, 2023
Motionographer, The Kiss, 2025
Cinema Screenings
Paris - L’Épée de bois
Paris - Le Luminor
Amour Océanique
In this piece, Elsa Secco captures the moment when love becomes visible, not as feeling, but as vibrational frequency. A silhouette dilates at the heart of a chromatic storm, a living antenna receiving cosmic currents. The emerging face, mouth open, cries recognition. Then two energies merge: magenta and blue dance together, mirrors of one another.
The flickering symbols, are the sigils of possibility. Elsa doesn't illustrate love. She activates it. She opens a portal where you discover this energy has always moved through you, waiting only for your permission to manifest.
Oceanic love asks to be felt, not understood.
Whelk Song
Whelk SongWhelk Song has been composed by Geoffrey Secco during a trip in Australia. All the music video style has been inspired by Aboriginal drawings and colours, and Geoffrey Secco shamanic experiences. The illustrations narrate an initiatory trip through dreamings.
Our researches were based on several books: Spirit In Land - Bark Paintings From Arnhem Land by Judith Ryan The Painters Of The Wagilag Sisters Story 1937-1997 by National Gallery Of Australia Australian Aboriginal Paintings by E.J.Brandl Paint-Up by Amanda Ahern
Directed by Elsa Secco & Jonathan Guyader.
Le Baiser
Before the kiss exists, the fantasy precedes it—blooming in darkness like petalled shadows seeking light. Hands reach, feathers ignite in neon gold and magenta, a geometry of longing suspended in the void. Two mouths trace invisible lines toward each other, drawn by a force older than words.
Elsa Secco makes the unseen seen. She renders the breath before contact, the magnetism between bodies that haven't yet touched. Feathers become lightning; desire becomes visible as luminous plumage. The kiss itself is almost unnecessary—the fantasy is the kiss.
In the space between intention and touch, everything that could happen, does.
My TedX Talk
The message is that everyone has the power to "set in motion" their own life, to choose their story and animate it as one would in motion design. Reality is a construct that you can change by modifying your narrative, and everyone can decide the story they want to tell through their actions and choices.