Luc MARESCOT

With three friends we created a travelling press agency and went around the world for two years with these two antique cars. They were our main office, with a different landscape by the window every day!

During this world tour that lasted two years, some cartoonist friends joined us for one month to cross the Sahara, and to make a cartoon book on the expedition.
Toff Hermenier, Eric Massiet, Jean-Luc Simon, Brett Henry, Bruno Honoré, Joub Legrand, Yann Vrignaud, and me

Expedition led by the world famous botanist Francis Hallé, in Madagascar. Biologists, botanists, entomologists study night and day the fauna and flora of the canopy, sleeping at around 45 meters above the ground

With Dany cleyet Marrel, pilot of the cinebulle, flying over the tropical forest of Gabon, for the film “Green forests and The Red Carpet”

Scientific raft over rainforest. Madagascar. The raft was moved from one place to another every two or three weeks, so the scientists can study different parts of the canopy.

Filming in Botswana for the nature program “Ushuaïa Nature”. The crew is around 30 people and every day has to be planned depending on the changing weather…. Here with the sound engineer Thierry Valtat (right)

9am. Breakfast time after four hours of filming at first light. Ushuaïa Nature. Botswana

Fakarava. French Polynesia. Two professional divers, Antonin Guilbert and Thibault Rauby on a Gombessa expedition led by Laurent Ballesta to understand the way the sharks attack their prey. One of their tool is this arch with 33 cameras, reproducing underwater the “Matrix” effect.

The Gombessa team of the film “700 sharks”, nominated at the Emmy Awards of New-York. Florian Holon, Antonin Guilbert, Jean-CHarles Granjon, Sylvian Girardot, Laurent Ballesta, Yanick Gentil, Cédric Gentil, Thibault Rauby, Roberto Rinaldi (and Yann Hubeert, Kevin Peyrusse who were not in the water that night).

Alan Simon, who created the music of “Green Forest and the Red Carpet”, and Marco Canepa who mixed the music. At drums code studio, Italy.

Africa. No comment.

Alaska. Ushuaïa Nature. We dressed up a camp with an electric fence, in the middle of the bears territory, looking for salmons.

Bornéo. Across the jungle with the sound engineer Jean-Baptiste Benoit and the pirogue driver Sam.

Bornéo. With the producer Nicolas Zunino (left), the sound engineer Jean-Baptiste Benoit, the speleologist Francis Le Guen, and Gérald.

Botswana. Salt pans. On a abandonned pink flamingos nesting site. With DOP and directors Christian Gaume and Denis Bertrand.

Canada. Alexis Barbier-Bouvet, director and drone pilot working on a story on polar bears. I was in charge of the camera work on land.

Congo, Daniel Meyer up in the air to follow a honey hunter.

Congo. A little nap as Marco Rebuttini is getting ready the camera Tree-tripod to film elephants from above.
His nap is next!

Congo. The first assistant Vincent Steiger helping the aerial crew, Marc Salama and Ronan Chollou.

Congo. Vertical travelling. With tree climbers Yvan Bringard and Marco Rebuttini.

Congo. With Frederic Courant and Jean-Baptiste Benoit 30 meters above ground.

Congo. Yvan Bringard getting the set ready for a documentary called “To the jungle”.

Fakarava, Polynesia. Divers waiting for the night to go and film a pack of 700 sharks Florian Holon, Laurent Ballesta, .Antonin Guilbert, Cedric et Yanick Gentil, Thibault Rauby.

Fakarava, Polynesia. Test sequence with a special arch made with 33 small cameras. Managed by Antonin Guilbert, Laurent Ballesta and Thibault Rauby.

French Polynesia. Manu Lefebvre and Gil Kebaili trying to get the shadow of a Manta Ray for a special effect shot.

Gabon. Damien chatard, Gil Kebaili, Francis Halle protecting the filming gear, waiting for the perfect light…

Gabon. The botanist Francis Halle with me on the top of an Anzem tree, for a scene of “Green forests and the red carpet”.

Gabon. The tree climber Noui Baiben helps the cameraman Gil Kebaili for a vertical travelling.

Greenland, in the geographic center of the island.

Iceland. Ushuaïa Nature. With the sound engineer Thierry Valtat, the photographer Georges Bosio and two scientists studying how to live on the planet Mars.

Indonesia. Jean-Baptiste Benoit, sound engineer, fighting against humidity.

Morocco. With Esther and Myrdhin making a reccee for the documentary program “Curieuse de nature” presented by Myriam Baran.

On the ship Tara, sailing to the subantarctic island of South Georgia. With the sound engineer Olivier Gil.

Pacific ocean, sailing to the atoll of Clipperton. Yvan Bringard getting ready a vertical travelling along the mast of the boat.

Papua new Guinea. Vertical travelling, with Mundiya Kepanga, cameramen François Rousset and Eric Petit.

Paris. Jérôme Krowicki and Barthélémy Robino, special effects masters help the director Gil Kebaili to get some shots of thunderstorms in an aquarium (shot for the film “Green forests and The Red Carpet”).

Polynesia. Expedition Gombessa of Laurent Ballesta. Film “700 sharks”. After the night dive. Yanick and Cedric Gentil.

South Georgia, across the island on the tracks of Ernest Shakleton, for the film “Mountains of silence”. A story about solidarity in between hearing and hard of hearing.

South Georgia. The sound engineer Olivier Gil, and the photographer Pascal Tournaire are somewhere on the picture…

Tchad. Ushuaïa Nature. Director Gil Kebaili and DOP Patrice Aubertel.

Cevennes, France. Denis Bertrand with the tamed pelicans of the film “Winged migrations” from Jacques Perrin (Oscar nominee)

Every post-it is a sequence, and the whole post-it wall is the editing plan for “Green forests and the Red Carpet”

With three friends we created a travelling press agency and went around the world for two years with these two antique cars. They were our main office, with a different landscape by the window every day!

During this world tour that lasted two years, some cartoonist friends joined us for one month to cross the Sahara, and to make a cartoon book on the expedition.
Toff Hermenier, Eric Massiet, Jean-Luc Simon, Brett Henry, Bruno Honoré, Joub Legrand, Yann Vrignaud, and me

Expedition led by the world famous botanist Francis Hallé, in Madagascar. Biologists, botanists, entomologists study night and day the fauna and flora of the canopy, sleeping at around 45 meters above the ground