17 Marzo 2016 15:02

La “domatrice d’ombre” Lemieux per il poster di Annecy 2016

The acclaimed French-Canadian illustrator Michèle Lemieux has received many international prizes for her children’s books, including the Bologna Ragazzi Award for Gewitternacht, whose adaption to the screen as Stormy Night marked her animation film debut in 2003.

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After discovering the Alexeieff-Parker pinscreen technique during a workshop given by Jacques Drouin at the NFB, she began work on her second short, Here and the Great Elsewhere, which was in the Official Selection at Annecy 2012. She also visited the Festival last year to give her own initiation workshop on the pinscreen.

The Annecy Festival team decided to call on her to create this year’s poster, and from the different themes for 2016, she has chosen to focus on French animation for her design.

France is in the spotlight at Annecy 2016, and I feel very privileged to have been asked to create the Festival poster. For this country that I love, I wanted to give a happy and timeless image, representing its perpetual movement.

Michèle Lemieux, a prominent French-Canadian illustrator and filmmaker, was entrusted to create the 2016 Annecy Festival poster and has chosen to highlight the theme of French animation as a way of demonstrating her fondness for this country.

France is in the spotlight at Annecy 2016, and I feel very privileged to have been asked to create the Festival poster. For this country that I love, I wanted to give a happy and timeless image, representing its perpetual movement.

For me, the magic of animation is expressed in the thousands of drawings known as intervals, which are barely noticeable to the viewer but provide a daily task for those working in the industry. These intervals are the ingredients for movement and the raw material for every conceivable transformation, from subtle gestures to visual prowess. Thanks to these drawings, life appears and comes into the world through the microscope of time in which we find ourselves when making an animated film.

I wanted to portray this with two characters, a man and a woman, who represent two key drawings that are connected by a series of transparent intervals, referring to their furtive appearance, but also to the symbol of the bond established between human beings.

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The signature of the poster was created by Jessica Charbonneau from TagTeam Studio.