Jacques Drouin: In Relief(2009)

Name: Jacques Drouin: In Relief
Director: Guillaume Fortin
Genre: Documentary, Animation
Released: 2009-01-01
Duration: 41 min
Cast: Jacques Drouin, Norman McLaren, Claire Parker, Alexandre Alexeieff, Michèle Lemieux

Jacques Drouin Norman McLaren Claire Parker Alexandre Alexeieff Michèle Lemieux

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 Enriched with numerous excerpts and unpublished images from the filmmaker's personal archives, Jacques Drouin en relief is both the adventure of a lifetime and a valuable lesson in cinema.