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19808 min 48 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Clorinda WarnySuzanne GervaisLina Gagnon
Production: Gaston SaraultPierre Moretti
This film describes the animator's personal view of the universe. Abstract landscapes evolve into strange, god-like figures whose images revert into landscapes. The movements are slow and dreamy. The product of an eclectic imagination, this universe draws on historical, literary and classical sources to illustrate our close ties with nature.
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Subject categories
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Animation on Life and DeathPeople and Nature
Credits
- director
- Clorinda Warny
- completed posthumously
- Suzanne Gervais
- Lina Gagnon
- producer
- Gaston Sarault
- executive producer
- Pierre Moretti
- camera
- Pierre Landry
- sound
- Roger Lamoureux
- editing
- Jacques Drouin
- music
- Denis Larochelle
Awards
- Certificate of Excellence - Category: AnimationBAFTA / British Academy Film Awards
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Visual EssaysItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- First Prize - with Cash Award of 40,000 pesetas - Category: AnimationFestival internatinal de cinéma de court métrage
- Special Jury AwardInternational Animated Film Festival
- Chris Bronze Plaque - Category: Art and Culture International Film and Video Festival
- Special Jury Prize given by Hubert Tison - Jury memberInternational Animation Festival
- Public's Award (mention for animation cinema given by COLIOPInternational Festival of Short and Documentary Films