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The Subject

2018 10 min
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The Subject engages the viewer in a uniquely visceral experience. Finely crafted objects and sounds create a tableau textured with myriad sensations, making this Patrick Bouchard’s most personal work to date.

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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.

Arts Psychology and Psychiatry Religion, Beliefs and Ethics All subjects
Animation All channels
  • writer
    Patrick Bouchard
  • animator
    Patrick Bouchard
  • director
    Patrick Bouchard
  • producer
    Julie Roy
  • sets
    Dany Boivin
  • props
    Dany Boivin
  • animation
    Pierre M. Trudeau
  • compositing
    Pierre M. Trudeau
  • off-line 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 clearances
    Sylvia Mezei
  • marketing manager
    Karine Sévigny
    Geneviève Bérard
  • publicist
    Nadine Viau

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