Jacques Drouin en relief

40 min
This documentary is a portrait of the animator of Le Paysagiste from his childhood in Eastern Quebec to his career at the NFB Trained at the École des beauxarts de Montréal and the University of California at Los Angeles UCLA Drouin became in some ways the heir to Alexandre Alexeïeff when he began working with the AlexeïeffParker pinhole screen in 1974 Recounting his relationship with the filmmaker and inventor coming back with lucidity and precision on the whole of his own filmography Jacques Drouin delivers here a precious testimony on creation Enriched with numerous excerpts and unpublished images from the filmmakers personal archives Jacques Drouin en relief is both the adventure of a lifetime and a valuable lesson in cinema
StarringJacques Drouin
DirectorGuillaume Fortin