Jacques Drouin
Jacques Drouin | |
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 Drouin at the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2017 | |
| Born | 28 May 1943 |
| Died | 28 August 2021 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | director animator |
Jacques Drouin (French: [ʒak dʁwɛ̃]; 28 May 1943[1] – 28 August 2021)[2] was a Canadian animator and director most known for his pinscreen animation.
Biography
Jacques Drouin was born in
UCLA in California.[3]
He first encountered the pinscreen at an animation exhibition in 1967. By the early 1970s, he was an apprentice at the National Film Board of Canada and experimenting with this unique form of animation. His first film, Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen, was released in 1974.[3]
Until his death, Jacques Drouin continued making
Animation Show of Shows
.
Filmography
- 1974 - Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen (Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff)
- 1976 - Mindscape (Le paysagiste)
- 1986 - Bretislav Pojar.
- 1988 - A Sun Between Two Clouds (Un soleil entre deux nuages) - participated as an animator.
- 1990 - Nathaël and the Seal Hunt (Nathaël et la chasse aux phoques)
- 1991 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Les Quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse)[1] - participated as an animator
- 1993 - MTV Push Pins
- 1994 - Ex-Child (Ex-enfant)
- 1996 - My Life Is a River (Une vie comme rivière) - participated as an animator.
- 2001 - A Hunting Lesson (Une leçon de chasse) - adaptation of tale by Jacques Godbout.
- 2003 - Winter Days (冬の日) - collaboration with many other famous animators
- 2004 - Imprints (Empreintes)
Awards
- 1976 - Ottawa International Animation Festival Special Jury Prize for Mindscape
See also
- Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
- Pinscreen animation
References
- ISBN 9781557836717.
- ^ "Legendary NFB Pinscreen Animator Jacques Drouin Dies at 78".
- ^ a b c "Drouin, Jacques". NFB Profiles. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 19 July 2012.[permanent dead link]
External links
- Jacques Drouin at IMDb
- Films by Jacques Drouin at the National Film Board of Canada
- "Hommage au maître Jacques Drouin" (Press release) (in French). Montreal: Cinémathèque québécoise. 24 November 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
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