Next season’s Artists’ Talks series unveiled!
In 2023–2024, the National Film Board of Canada, in partnership with the Sommets du cinéma d’animation, will be presenting a diverse program of events in its Artists’ Talks series. You won’t want to miss this rich season of sharing and discussion within the animation community!
October 11, 2023
Film title: Society of Clothes
Filmmaker: Dahee Jeong
Technique: 2D animation
A co-production of Miyu (France), Between the Pictures (South Korea) and the NFB
Language of talk: French
Korean filmmaker Dahee Jeong will be in Montreal for post-production on her new short, Les gens dans l’armoire. During her stay in the city, she’ll use the opportunity to take us inside her animation art and reveal the secrets of her creative process. Her film is about a world in which the characters are made only of clothes, except for one little girl who has a body and shows up one day not wearing anything…
December 7, 2023
Film title: Maybe Elephants
Filmmaker: Torill Kove
Technique: 2D animation
A co-production of Mikrofilm (Norway) and the NFB
Language of talk: English
Following Me and My Moulton, filmmaker Torill Kove explores another era in her family’s life. Bored with their seemingly routine lives in Norway, Kove’s parents uproot the family and relocate to Nairobi, Kenya. This is a story about that uprooting, about adventure and misadventure, and about the long road travelled that inevitably leads to one’s true home. And self.
Februrary 1, 2024
Film title: Le tableau (The Painting)
Filmmaker: Michèle Lemieux
Technique: Pinscreen animation
An NFB production
Language of talk: French
In 2024, Michèle Lemieux will complete her latest short, Le tableau, using pinscreen animation. This visually poetic non-narrative film revisits Diego Vélasquez’s 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria with genuine feeling. The heir to the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen technique, Lemieux will cover the creative process around this method of animation.
March 14, 2024
Film title: LOCA
Filmmaker: Véronique Paquette
Technique: India ink on paper
An NFB production
Language of talk: French
Véronique Paquette’s first short film with the NFB, LOCA, is filled with rhythm and motion. With dynamic energy captured using India ink on paper, the filmmaker shows how dancing a liberating tango with a stranger enables a woman to reconnect with herself.
May 11, 2024
Film title: In the Shallows
Filmmaker: Arash Akhgari
Techniques: Collage, ink-and-paint animation
An NFB production
Language of talk: English
In this talk, Arash Akhgari will reveal his creative process for In the Shallows, a hypnotizing blend of moving collage and ink & paint animation that immerses viewers in an ocean of content: news, advertisements, entertainment, fashion. It becomes a swirling vortex of images and sounds, a mix of conflicting emotions, an intoxicating brew of mass media that one can easily drown in.