Jacques Drouin (; 28 May 1943 – 28 August 2021) was a Canadian

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and

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most known for his pinscreen animation.

Biography

Jacques Drouin was born in

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. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal for several years before leaving to study filmmaking at the

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. He first encountered the pinscreen at an animation exhibition in 1967. By the early 1970s, he was an apprentice at the

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and experimenting with this unique form of

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. His first film, '' Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen'', was released in 1974. Drouin continued making pinscreen animation films for the

, one of the only animators in the world to still use this difficult but rewarding process. Some of his short films are available on NFB

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collections, and a few are available online. His film, ''A Hunting Lesson'', was included in the Animation Show of Shows. Late in his career he trained animator Michèle Lemieux in the pinscreen technique and passed his pinscreen on to her, with which she made the 2012 film '' Here and the Great Elsewhere (Le Grand ailleurs et le petit ici)''.Odile Tremblay
"D'ombres et d'épingles"
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'', February 14, 2012.

Filmography

* 1974 - '' Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen'' (''Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff'') * 1976 - '' Mindscape (Le paysagiste)'' * 1986 - '' Nightangel'' (fr: ''L'Heure des anges'', cz: ''Romance z temnot'') - a collaboration with

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. * 1988 - '' A Sun Between Two Clouds'' (''Un soleil entre deux nuages'') - participated as an animator. * 1990 - '' Nathaël and the Seal Hunt'' (''Nathaël et la chasse aux phoques'') * 1991 - '' The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse'' (''Les Quatre cavaliers de l'apocalypse'

- participated as an animator * 1993 - ''

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Push Pins'' * 1994 - '' Ex-Child'' (''Ex-enfant'') * 1996 - '' My Life Is a River'' (''Une vie comme rivière'') - participated as an animator. * 2001 - '' A Hunting Lesson'' (''Une leçon de chasse'') - adaptation of tale by

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. * 2003 - ''

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'' (冬の日) - collaboration with many other famous animators * 2004 - ''

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(Empreintes)''

Awards

* 1976 -

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Special Jury Prize for '' Mindscape''

References

External links

*
Films by Jacques Drouin
at the

* 1943 births 2021 deaths Canadian animated film directors Film directors from Montreal National Film Board of Canada people Pinscreen animation People from Bas-Saint-Laurent UCLA Film School alumni École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni {{Canada-animator-stub

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