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I, Barnabé
202015 min 6 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Jean-François Lévesque
Production: Julie Roy
Script: Jean-François Lévesque
I, Barnabé takes a luminous look at a desperate man’s existential crisis. During a night of stormy drunkenness, he receives a visit from a mysterious bird and is forced to reconsider his life.
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Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Life and DeathSuicide
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Priests and Priesthood
Credits
- direction
- Jean-François Lévesque
- script
- Jean-François Lévesque
- animation
- Jean-François Lévesque
- design
- Jean-François Lévesque
- props fabrication
- Valérie Dupras
- illustrations
- Valérie Dupras
- set finishing
- Valérie Dupras
- director of photography
- Stephan Ballard
- Mathieu Bergeron
- motion control operator
- Stephan Ballard
- Lighting R&D
- Mathieu Bergeron
- compositing
- Mélanie O'Bomsawin
- Jean-François Lévesque
- Stephan Ballard
- Brenda Lopez Zepeda
- script consultant
- Géraldine Charbonneau
- Michèle Tougas
- editing
- Annie Jean
- sound design
- Olivier Calvert
- music score
- Robert Marcel Lepage
- music score assistance
- Samuel Desrosiers
- set design
- Marie Bloch-Lainé
- stained glass design
- Marie Bloch-Lainé
- set construction
- Bertrand Lévesque
- set construction assistance
- Lorraine Demers
- puppet maker
- Brenda Baumgarten
- mechanisms for rooster heads
- Brenda Baumgarten
- mechanisms & skin for Barnabé heads
- Jim Randall
- armature fabrication
- Erik Goulet
- Hamish Lambert
- armature fabrication assistance
- Marie Valade
- costume fabrication
- Allison Easson
- additional props
- Dominique Leroux
- puppet repair
- Valérie Dupras
- André Michaud
- Carla Veldman
- stop motion animation
- Jean-François Lévesque
- Valérie Dupras
- Patrick Bouchard
- watercolour animation
- Adrien Calle
- Catherine Manesse
- watercolour painting
- Valérie Dupras
- Jean-François Lévesque
- live action shoot
- Stephan Ballard
- Yannick Grandmont
- Jean-François Lévesque
- 3D modeling, characters
- Jean-François Lévesque
- Valérie Dupras
- singer
- Marie Magistry
- Bronwyn Thies-Thompson
- Rebecca Bain
- Angèle Trudeau
- Josée Lalonde
- Ghislaine Deschambault
- Kerry Bursey
- Marcel De Hêtre
- Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse
- Normand Richard
- Yves St-Amant
- William Kraushaar
- recording studio
- Tone Studio
- Studio 270
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- voice
- Marcel Sabourin
- voice direction
- Manon Arsenault
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- mix
- Isabelle Lussier
- online editor
- Serge Verreault
- technical director
- Éloi Champagne
- Éric Pouliot
- technical specialist - animation
- Yannick Grandmont
- technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- titles
- Réjean Myette
- marketing
- Geneviève Bérard
- administration
- Diane Régimbald
- Karine Desmeules
- senior production coordinator
- Camila Blos
- studio coordinator
- Michèle Labelle
- Laetitia Seguin
- production coordinator
- Mélanie O'Bomsawin
- delegate producer
- Anne-Marie Bousquet
- Jocelyne Perrier
- Mylène Augustin
- producer
- Julie Roy
Awards
- Craft Award for Best TechniqueInternational Animation Festival
- Silver Spike Short- with cash award of 3,000 €International Film Festival
- Best Short Award- CG Animation CompetitionShort Shorts Film Festival & Asia
- Mention spéciale du meilleur film professionnelStop Motion Film Festival
- Audience Award- International Program #2International Animation Festival