The Subject / Le sujet / Subjekt
Patrick Bouchard (National Film Board of Canada)
2018, Canada, 10'
An animator dissects his own body, extracting memories, emotions and fears that will nurture his work. As he cuts into his skin with a scalpel, various symbolic objects recalling his past emerge. Reaching the heart after cracking his ribs, he succeeds in identifying the burden he’s been dying to cast off.
Animator secira svoje telo in iz njega izlušči spomine, čustva in strahove, ki bodo podlaga za njegovo delo. Ko s skalpelom zareže v kožo, se pojavijo različni simbolični predmeti, ki spominjajo na njegovo preteklost. Ko se po zlomu reber dokoplje do svojega srca, mu uspe identificirati breme, ki se ga obupno želi znebiti.
Language: None
Technique: Pixilation, object animation
Team
Written, Animated and Directed by Patrick Bouchard
Producer: Julie Roy
Sets and Props: Dany Boivin
Animation and Compositing: Pierre M. Trudeau
Offline Editing: Sacha Ratcliffe, Theodore Ushev
Sound Design: Olivier Calvert
Original Music: Patrick Bouchard
Music Director: Philippe Brault
Musician: Patrick Bouchard
On-camera Performer: Patrick Bouchard
Foley: Lise Wedlock
Foley Assistant: Thomas Garant
Sound Recording: Geoffrey Mitchell
Re-recording: Serge Boivin
Online Editing: Serge Verreault
Titles: Réjean Myette
Technical Direction: Pierre Plouffe
Technical Coordination – Animation: Yannick Grandmont
Technical Coordination: Jean-François Laprise
Production Coordination: Michèle Labelle
Administration: Diane Régimbald, Karine Desmeules
Administrative Assistant: Diane Ayotte
Rights Clearance: Sylvia Mezei
Marketing Managers: Karine Sévigny, Geneviève Bérard
Publicist: Nadine Viau
Patrick Bouchard
Born in Quebec City in 1974 and raised in Saguenay, Quebec, Patrick Bouchard earned an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, where he directed his first stop motion puppet film, Jean Leviériste (1998), as part of his degree. His first professional film, The Brainwashers (2002), a comic but chilling look at a musician tormented by his overactive imagination, won a Jutra Award for best animated short. Dehors novembre (2005), based on a song by the Quebec rock group Les Colocs, also received a Jutra and was screened in competition at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Bouchard followed up with his third stop-motion puppet film, Subservience (2007), which depicts a world on the verge of collapse thanks to its callous bourgeoisie and submissive servants. In 2007, at the Off-Courts Festival in Trouville, France, he made Talon d’argile, a very short film with constantly mutating clay figures, in just 24 hours. This experiment inspired Bydlo (2012), which was selected to screen at both TIFF and Annecy and went on to win Bouchard’s third Jutra in 2013. The film received awards at several other film festivals, notably the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, where it won the award for best animated film, and the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won the Special Award for Technical Achievement. Le sujet is his fifth film with the NFB.