Nicolas Brault is an award-winning filmmaker and professor who teaches 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 Feature at the 37th César Awards. In 2012, he developed a series of non-narrative short films and immersive projections around the human body. From 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 newest entry in the series is Entropic Memory (2024).