Letter to Vincent (Site Web)

2010~ 10 minInteractive: Web Experience

By: Éric Godin

Production: Hugues Sweeney

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in partnership with the Journal Le Devoir.

In memory of his son Vincent, who took his own life on December 14, 2009, illustrator Éric Godin together with the artist Zilon created the interactive online project Letter to Vincent. Moved by the suffering of his friend, Zilon persuaded Godin to write about the experience of losing his son. The resulting audio/video essay in narrated by Godin and includes some fifty ink wash drawings and an original soundscape by Zilon. Plunging viewers into the heart-rending emotions of grieving father, this project expresses in words and images the unthinkable, unacceptable fact of a teenager’s suicide.

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Subject categories

  • Psychology and Psychiatry > SuicideYouth

Credits

director
Éric Godin
writing
Éric Godin
narration
Éric Godin
images
Zïlon
sound design
Zïlon
original idea
Zïlon
Éric Godin
Anne-Marie Lavigne
Hugues Sweeney
Martin Viau
Dominique Willieme
conception
Zïlon
Éric Godin
Anne-Marie Lavigne
Hugues Sweeney
Martin Viau
Dominique Willieme
design
Martin Viau
Flash development
Martin Viau
Flash programming
Francis Vidal
producer
Hugues Sweeney
project manager
Dominique Willieme
webmaster
Martin Viau
interactivity officer
Anne-Marie Lavigne
studio administrator
Manon Provencher
production coordinator
Hélène Regimbal
technical coordinator
Richard Cliche
administrative assistant
Lise Lévesque
digitization
Claude Lord
marketing manager
Sophie Thouin
information technologies
Sergiu Raul Suciu
Pierre Métras
Bruno Gervasi
interactive services
Joël Pomerleau
Jean-François Côté
Matthieu Stréliski
audience management
Benoît Du Berger
media relation
Nadine Viau
digital processing centre
Natalie Tessier
André Solat
Annie Lemire