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The Hat
19996 min 1 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Michèle Cournoyer
Production: Thérèse DescaryPierre Hébert
Script: Michèle Cournoyer
A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.
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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
- foley
- Monique Vézina
- foley assistant
- Martine Collin
- sound recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Robert Langlois
- recording
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- post-production coordination
- Andrée Delagrave
- administration
- Maryse Chapdelaine
- administration assistant
- Diane Régimbald
- marketing officer
- Michèle Bélanger
- assistant to the producer
- 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)