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Le chapeau
19996 min 1 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Michèle Cournoyer
Production: Thérèse DescaryPierre Hébert
Script: Michèle Cournoyer
Danseuse nue dans un bar, une jeune femme se remémore un moment de sa vie. Enfant, elle reçoit la visite d'un homme qui l'abuse physiquement. Ce périple intérieur ramène à la surface de douloureux souvenirs, dont celui de l'obsédant chapeau. Dessinées à l'encre noire, d'un trait vif, les images dépouillées de ce court film d'animation se bousculent en une suite de métamorphoses à la fois troublantes et saisissantes. Le Chapeau est un film qui remue. Avec véracité, la réalisatrice nous fait partager la douleur d'une femme à la mémoire maculée qui s'offre au regard des hommes. Film sans paroles.
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Subject categories
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Incest and Sexual Abuse
- Women > Sexuality and ReproductionViolence Against Women
- Children and Youth > Violence and Child Abuse
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Women
- Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Health/Personal Development > Sexuality
Credits
- direction
- Michèle Cournoyer
- script
- Michèle Cournoyer
- animation
- Michèle Cournoyer
- animation camera
- Pierre Landry
- editing
- Fernand Bélanger
- original music
- Jean Derome
- music - interpretation
- Fabienne Bélair
- Jean Derome
- Normand Guilbeault
- Joane Hétu
- Jean René
- Pierre Tanguay
- Rainer Wiens
- sound design
- Fernand Bélanger
- Jean Derome
- sound editing
- Esther Auger
- sound effects creation
- Monique Vézina
- sound recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Robert Langlois
- sound mixer
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- administration
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administration - assistance
- Diane Régimbald
- Louisette Goyette
- producer's assistant
- Francine Langdeau
- producer
- Thérèse Descary
- Pierre Hébert
Awards
- Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadien short film - with a cash prize of 4,000$International Francophone Film Festival in Acadie
- John Spotton Award - with a cash prize of 2,500$International Film Festival
- Special Jury AwardInternational Animation Festival
- AQCC-Téléfilm Canada Award - Category: Best Short or Medium-Length Film - with a cash prize of 4,000$ (ex-aequo with Du front tout le tour de la tête de Chantal DuPont)Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
- Best Animated Short Gala Québec Cinéma
- Best Animated Short AwardInternational Film Festival
- Special Mention FIPRESCI awardInternational Animated Film Festival
- Special Jury Award - For its creativity, sensitivity and personal treatment of a difficult and grave subject such as incest.International Film Festival
- Honorable Mention - Category: Films less than 7 minutes Category AInternational Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
- Prize of the City of Vienna (ex-aequo with Surface Dive by Joanna Priestley) with a cash prize of 25,000ATS (approx. 2,612.50$Cdn divided between the winners)Tricky Women International Women's Animated Film Festival
- Special Mention of the Ecumenical JuryInternational Short Film Festival
- Special Jury AwardLos Angeles Animation Competition / World Animation Celebration (Wacfest)