Artist Statement 

The XONS are a tribe of diminutive skeletons that come in all sorts of monstrous and comical shapes and sizes. They move about frenetically and play tricks on one another amidst the flames of hell.

The saga of Les Xons tells of their loves and their games, the battles they wage and the children they beget, the epidemics that wipe them out and their miracle cures, the fuel that keeps them going…on their planet of fire.

There are many different XONS : One-Armed Goliath, Lady Lambchop, Torototem, Homo Longus, Baby Boom, Spidergirl, Bibendame, the germs Minus and Virus and the Simplus cousins are a boisterous bunch as it is, but the family’s growing by leaps and bounds, for XONS know all sorts of unorthodox methods of reproduction.

The moment they move an inch, XONS make a horrifying hullabaloo. Even their slightest gestures scrape, bang and rattle to generate a frenetic beat, which is what makes Les Xons series a musical, too.

Pilot 1 : CRAC – CRAC (“SHTUP – SHTUP”) (length : 40”) enlightens us as to the probable genesis of the planet of the XONS : viz. a quickie.

Pilot 2 : BASTON (“ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE”) (length : 1’) shows us how Minus, Baby-Boom’s son, goads and eventually tussles with Legless Cripple-On-Wheels.

Apart from those two pilots the saga was not produced.  babiole.net/en/les-xons

• Cécile Babiole (born 1956, FR) lives and works in Paris. Literature and arts studies. She is a video maker and 3 D animation designer and director. Awards: Imagina, Images du Futur, Ars Electronica, Festival de l’Audiovisuel Museographique, The Locarno Festival, SCAM Prize, Villa Medicis Hors les Murs Grant. Video works: Bula Bula, portrait of six aboriginal painters from Ramingning – Australia (1993), Virtus, computer-generated images music video for Canal+TV chanel(1992) , awarded by the Imagina, Locarno and Images du Futur Festivals, Le Pepin Geant, computer-generated images music video over an Arp sculpture for the Georges Pompidou Center series L’Art en Jeu (1992): awarded by the Imagina Images du Futur Festival and Festival de l’Audiovisuel Museographique Festival (1992). Les Xons: Crac Crac et Baston, feature film series in computer-generated images, awarded by the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz – Austria (Ex Nihilo/Mac Guff Ligne 1992) Realites Virtuelles,  documentary film for the french TV channel Canal + (1992), Menagerie, video creation for the french TV channel Canal + (1988), Tourenis, video creation for the American Center in Paris – France (1986) http://www.babiole.net