Jacques Drouin

Jacques Drouin (b. 1943) is a Canadian animator and director most known for his pinscreen animations.

Biography

Jacques Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Québec province, Canada. He studied at the École des beaux-arts in Montréal for several years before leaving to study filmmaking at the UCLA in California.

Image from Imprints (2004)

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.

To this day, Jacques Drouin is making pinscreen animation films for the National Film Board of Canada, one of the only animators in the world to still use this difficult but rewarding process. Some of his short films are available on NFB DVD collections.

Filmography

* 1974 - Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen (Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff)
* 1976 - Mindscape (Le Paysagiste)
* 1986 - Nightangel (fr: L'Heure des anges, cz: Romance z temnot) - a collaboration with 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) - participated as an animator
* 1994 - Ex-Child (Ex-enfant)
* 1996 - A Life Like 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

* Pinscreen animation

References

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