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The Song-Catcher
200111 min 20 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Philippe Vaucher
Production: Pierre HébertMarcel Jean
Script: Philippe Vaucher
An old man is obsessed by the haunting memory of his beloved who has passed on. He chases and collects butterflies while life slowly passes him by. The butterfly symbolizes his past happiness. Its erratic flight mimics the tragic tale of passionate love as the story flits between past and present, dream and reality. Set to the music of Gluck, The Song-Catcher shows an old man tormented by his dreams and consumed by sadness until his final release into eternity. Reminiscent of the world of Edgar Allan Poe, Philippe Vaucher's charcoal drawings capture the mournful landscapes of a tormented soul. In this hauntingly beautiful animated film, life melds into death in a sensuous celebration of love eternal. A film without words.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional LifeLife and Death
Credits
- direction
- Philippe Vaucher
- script
- Philippe Vaucher
- animation
- Philippe Vaucher
- editing
- Natacha Dufaux
- editing consultant
- Annie Jean
- computer graphics
- Jihane Geadah
- René Fontaine
- computer graphics consultant
- Pierre Plouffe
- digitizing
- Jean-Marc Brosseau
- sound design
- Olivier Calvert
- picture trainee
- Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard
- sound trainee
- Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard
- music
- C.W. Gluck
- music - performance
- Denis Bluteau
- Jennifer Swartz
- musical research
- Denis Bluteau
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- foley assistant
- Alexis Farand
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Patrick Viegas
- voice
- Pierre Collin
- Isabelle Blais
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- Shelley Craig
- technical coordination
- Andrée Delagrave
- administration
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administrative team
- Louisette Goyette
- Diane Régimbald
- Diane Champagne
- Diane Martindale
- marketing officer
- Julie Roy
- assistant to the producer
- Francine Langdeau
- producer
- Pierre Hébert
- Marcel Jean