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La Plante humaine
19971 h 18 min 9 secFilm: Experimental, Animation
Direction: Pierre Hébert
Production: Yves LeducFreddy Denaës
Script: Pierre HébertAnne Quesemand
Co-produced by the NFB and Arcadia Films (France).
This meditative film combines animation and live action as it follows a day in the life of a retired librarian. The Gulf War is raging, but Michel's life proceeds at its own pace. Widowed and alone, he fills his day with the simplest of tasks: feeding and walking his dog, shopping, laying flowers at his wife's grave. Yet these simple gestures belie the internal workings of his mind. Michel's life teems with information and images. There is a book on Leonardo da Vinci and another of fables and legends as well as the omnipresent television with its news reports, documentaries and cooking shows. How does one make sense of it all? How does Michel? In French, with English subtitles.
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Subject categories
- Social Issues > Consumer CultureMedia and Consumerism
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Human Condition
- Media and Communication > Media IssuesTelevision Broadcasting and Production
Credits
- director
- Pierre Hébert
- animation
- Pierre Hébert
- producer
- Yves Leduc
- Freddy Denaës
- script
- Pierre Hébert
- Anne Quesemand
- camera
- Barry Wood
- Michel Dubois
- Michael Cleary
- animation camera
- Raymond Dumas
- sound
- Claude Beaugrand
- editing
- Fernand Bélanger
- sound editing
- Christian Marcotte
- Michel Gauvin
- sound mix
- Serge Boivin
- computer animation
- Pierre Plouffe
- voice
- Joseph Rouleau
- Michelle Allen
- Domini Blythe
- Laurent Chabot
- Marisa Corriols
- Denis Karegeya
- music
- Robert M. Lepage
- cast
- Sotigui Kouyaté
- Michael Lonsdale
- participation
- Philippe Lefait
- Marc-Alain Ouaknin
- Ignacio Ramonet
- Agnès Stacke
- Dai Sijie
Awards
- AQCC-SODEC Award - Category: Best Feature Film - with a cash prize of 5,000$Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma
- Jury Special AwardInternational Environmental Film Festival