Telling Stories with Words and Images – 16 years and up – 48 min
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Animation and animators are at the very heart of the NFB. We think you’ll enjoy discovering these well-known or emerging artists of today and yesterday. This program demonstrates the power of animation to elicit the strongest and most personal emotions, from disappointment in love in Joséphine to the creative, poetic and dazzling frenzy of Misérable Miracle (Miserable Miracle). In Souvenirs de guerre, groundbreaking filmmaker Pierre Hébert uses the scratch-on-film technique to address the unspeakable anxiety brought about by the threat of war. Aphasie (Aphasia) puts us in the shoes of someone who can no longer express themselves with words. Also without words, Claude Cloutier’s Mauvaises herbes (Bad Seeds) cleverly connects a range of ideas through free-flowing images. In Le tableau (The Painting), made on the NFB’s famous Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, Michèle Lemieux meditates on the tragic fate of Queen Mariana of Austria and on violence against women.
Joséphine | Anne-Marie Sirois | 2000 | 4 min |english dubbed
Misérable Miracle | Ryo Orikasa | 2023 | 8 min |english subtitles or english dubbed
Souvenirs de guerre | Pierre Hébert| 1982 | 16 min | englishdubbed
Aphasie | Marielle Dalpé | 2023 | 3 min| english subtitles or english dubbed
Mauvaises herbes | Claude Cloutier | 2020 | 6 min| withoutwords
Le tableau | Michèle Lemieux | 2024 | 11 min| withoutwords
This program is available dubbed in English.