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The Trenches/La tranchée
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A young man is getting ready to fight at the front. On the
battlefield and in the depths of the ditches, the recruits are dreading the
order to attack. It’s war. The roar of explosions moving ever closer forebodes
a spectacle of horror. Anxiety tightens its grip. The signal is given. The
soldier leaps out of the trench and into a hellish expanse
where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead
as far as the eye can see.
Using brush and India ink to contemporize
archival World War I images, Claude Cloutier pulls us into the inner reality
of his protagonist through half real, half surrealistic scenes that reveal the
symbolic importance of the earth. The Trenches is
an intense cinematic experience, a powerful anti-war film that asks the
question: Why? The dirty war that raged nearly one
hundred years ago is no different from all those erupting today that reduce
men and women to mere canon fodder.
2010, 05 min 54 s
Festivals
International Film Festival
September 9 to 19 2010, Toronto, CanadaNew York City Short Film Festival
September 24 to 25 2010, New York, USACarrousel international du film
September 25 to October 3 2010, Rimouski, CanadaHolland Animation Film Festival
November 3 to 7 2010, Utrecht, NetherlandsInternational Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
November 8 to 14 2010, Espinho, Portugal
