Martine Chartrand (6)
Martine Chartrand
Martine Chartrand is a Montreal-born, Haitian-Canadian animator, painter/illustrator and teacher. She completed her first animated film, TV Tango, in 1992; it went on to win several international awards. She later travelled to Russia for advanced training with Alexander Petrov, one of the masters of paint-on-glass animation. After returning to Canada, she perfected the difficult technique and used it to brilliant effect on her next two films, Black Soul (2000), winner of 23 international awards, including the prestigious Golden Bear at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival, and MacPherson (2010), which also earned many honours. In 2020, she received the René Jodoin Award in recognition of her remarkable career, her social engagement and her influence in the field of Canadian animation.
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T.V. TangoMartine Chartrand 1992 3 minQuatre enfants subissant toutes sortes de désagréments sous l'influence de la télévision décident de s'en détourner pour s'adonner ensemble à des jeux inventifs et dynamiques. Ce film d'animation, qui s'adresse aux 5 à 8 ans, vise à éveiller le sens critique de l'enfant face à la culture transmise par les médias. Film sans paroles. -
T.V. TangoMartine Chartrand 1992 3 minFour children who have picked up all sorts of annoying behavior from watching television decide instead to create their own games. This animated film for five- to eight-year-olds is intended to awaken children's critical sense regarding the media messages aimed at them. (Film without words).
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Black SoulMartine Chartrand 2000 9 minMartine Chartrand’s animated short dives into the heart of Black culture with an exhilarating trip though history. Watch as a young boy traces his roots through the stories his grandmother shares with him about the events that shaped their cultural heritage.
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Âme noireMartine Chartrand 2000 9 minUne animation qui convie le spectateur à une plongée au coeur de la culture noire, à un rapide et exaltant voyage à travers les lieux qui ont marqué l'histoire de ces peuples. Le récit que transmet une vieille dame à son petit-fils fait défiler sous nos yeux une succession de tableaux peints directement sous la caméra, accompagnant l'enfant sur les traces de ses ancêtres.
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MacPhersonMartine Chartrand 2012 10 minCe court métrage d'animation de Martine Chartrand (Âme noire) raconte le lien d'amitié tissé au Québec, vers 1933, entre Félix Leclerc et Frank Randolph Macpherson, un ingénieur-chimiste jamaïcain qui inspira au célèbre poète une chanson sur la drave. Entre fiction et documentaire, à travers des séquences porteuses d’Histoire et autour de la mise en images de la chanson, la cinéaste réalise une animation de peinture sur verre, évoquant avec délicatesse les sentiments qui auraient lié l’ingénieur et l’une des sœurs du poète.
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MacPhersonMartine Chartrand 2012 10 minThis animated film by Martine Chartrand (Black Soul) recounts the friendship between a young Félix Leclerc and Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it “MacPherson” in honour of his friend. Paint-on-glass animation shot with a 35mm camera.
