Jacques Drouin: In Relief

This documentary is a portrait of the animator of Le Paysagiste, from his childhood in Eastern Quebec to his career at the NFB. Trained at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Drouin became in some ways the heir to Alexandre Alexeïeff when he began working with the Alexeïeff-Parker pinhole screen in 1974. Recounting his relationship with the filmmaker and inventor, coming back with lucidity and precision on the whole of his own filmography, Jacques Drouin delivers here a precious testimony on creation. Enriched with numerous excerpts and unpublished images from the filmmaker's personal archives, Jacques Drouin en relief is both the adventure of a lifetime and a valuable lesson in cinema.

• Release date
• January 1, 2009
• Runtime
• 41 min
• Genres
• Documentary, Animation
• Director
• Guillaume Fortin

Cast

Jacques Drouin Self Norman McLaren Archive Footage Claire Parker Archive Footage

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Alexandre Alexeieff Archive Footage

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Michèle Lemieux Self