# animate! › Films › Heliocentrum by Jason White & Richard Wright

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, computer animation, politics, power, louis xiv, animated documentary, music video crossover, filmmaker, designer, illustrator, visual artist

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**Heliocentrum** a film by Jason White & Richard Wright. 1995

[Richard Wright](http://futurenatural.net/)

11 min 30 sec

colour 4:3

stereo

[Film / embedded media](https://player.vimeo.com/video/22580169)

![Heliocentrum, still: “The people of the court are like a foreign nation within the State, composed of people drawn from different places. They are not all people of intellect, but they nearly all have an admirable politeness instead…” – _Cesar Vichard, Archbishop of Saint-Real, 1692._](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/heliocentrum07.jpg)

“The people of the court are like a foreign nation within the State, composed of people drawn from different places. They are not all people of intellect, but they nearly all have an admirable politeness instead…” – _Cesar Vichard, Archbishop of Saint-Real, 1692._

### a film by Jason White & Richard Wright

### animate! synopsis

Politics and pleasure in the court of King Louis. A Baroque rave where Versailles meets Video. Computer animation for the cognoscenti.

### key credits

**director**
Jason White
Richard Wright

**animator**
Jason White
Richard Wright

**editor**
St John Walker

**music**
Walter Fabeck

*Heliocentrum* film, stills and other materials © Richard Wright & Jason White 1995