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Alchemists
199111 min 12 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Heidi Blomkvist
Production: David VerrallDouglas MacDonaldBarrie McLean
Script: Heidi Blomkvist
Alchemists is a visual fantasy, a gripping tale that is outrageously 'small' in its details, brazenly 'larger-than-life' in its themes: life, death and rebirth; creation and destruction; permanence and impermanence, spontaneity and control. Bold swoops of liquid colour surge with composer Normand Roger's variations on Mozart's Requiem to a startling denouement. Impressionistic and powerful, this animation film will provoke reflection on creativity, relationships, and the environment. Film without words.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > AllegoriesEnvironmental Perspectives
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Life and Death
- Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
- Media Education > Film Animation
- English Language Arts > Poetry
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- Heidi Blomkvist
- script
- Heidi Blomkvist
- animation
- Heidi Blomkvist
- producer
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Douglas MacDonald
- Barrie McLean
- animation camera
- Jacques Avoine
- Lynda Pelley
- Pierre Landry
- music
- Normand Roger
- Denis L. Chartrand