Patrick Bouchard (10)
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.
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BydloPatrick Bouchard 2012 8 minAn allegory of mankind heading for disaster, this animated short is a tragic vision inspired by the 4th movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, animator Patrick Bouchard brings earth to life through animated clay sculptures, creating a tactile nightmare in which man is his own slave driver. -
The BrainwashersPatrick Bouchard 2002 12 minIn this animated short, two chimney sweepers clear all the memories from their victim's brain in a quest to determine what goes on in a man's head. A chilling film filled with fearsome puppets inhabiting a world of strange objects.
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RévérencePatrick Bouchard 2007 8 minEntre l'égoïsme des bourgeois et la bête passivité de leurs serviteurs, ce court métrage de marionnettes présente la tragi-comédie d'une société agonisante, dont les membres aveuglés se réfugient dans des comportements absurdes. Film sans paroles.
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Les ramoneurs cérébrauxPatrick Bouchard 2002 12 minJutra du meilleur film d'animation en 2003. L'histoire débute ainsi : Cet homme-là, quand on l'a amené à la clinique, c'était plus que pour un examen de routine. On lui a introduit une immense seringue dans la tête, de laquelle s'est échappée une sauce jaunâtre, qui, par une curieuse chimie, a donné naissance à deux hommes patibulaires. Ainsi commence ce film d'animation angoissant, dans lequel deux experts du ramonage parviennent à effacer les souvenirs contenus dans le cerveau de leur victime. Des marionnettes inquiétantes, qui habitent un monde rempli d'objets étranges.
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SubserviencePatrick Bouchard 2007 8 minIn this animated short, the selfishness of the bourgeoisie and the oppression and exploitation of its servants take centre stage as a puppet show presents the tragicomedy of a society in its death throes.
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The SubjectPatrick Bouchard 2018 10 minAn 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.
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BydloPatrick Bouchard 2012 8 minLa musique de Moussorgski inspire Bydlo, un court métrage d'animation de Patrick Bouchard qui met en scène un bœuf puissant surgissant de la terre humide pour être aussitôt dévoré par une humanité avide et querelleuse.
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Dehors novembrePatrick Bouchard 2005 6 minFilm d'animation évoquant la mort de l'harmoniciste du groupe Les Colocs. À partir de Dehors novembre, une chanson des Colocs, Patrick Bouchard a réalisé un court métrage sur la mort comme elle se donne dehors, la nuit, en plein mois des morts... Toutes les morts se valent et la mort gagne tout le temps.
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Dehors novembrePatrick Bouchard 2005 6 minThis animated short evokes the tragic death of Dédé Fortin, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs. To the soundtrack of “Dehors novembre,” one of the band’s songs, animator Patrick Bouchard weaves of dark tale of death and ruin, as they unfold in the dark of night, in November, the Month of the Dead. Not for children.
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Le sujetPatrick Bouchard 2018 10 minUn animateur fouille son propre corps pour en extirper les souvenirs, les émotions et les angoisses qui viendront nourrir son œuvre. De la peau d’abord coupée au scalpel surgissent divers objets symboliques évoquant son passé. Arrivé au cœur après s’être fracassé les côtes, il parvient à identifier le poids dont il veut se délester.
