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Cournoyer Michèle
Michèle Cournoyer is one of Canada's foremost creators of animated film. After working independently for several years, during which she made six films inspired by the Dada movement, she joined the NFB in the early 1990s. The first four films she made for the Board garnered a total of 27 international awards. Her powerful yet sensitive style, based on metamorphosis, was honed over this period. The charm and humour of her earlier work was replaced by a new serious vein, a focus on tragedy apparent in Dolorosa (1988), her last independent film, and reaffirmed in La basse cour/ A Feather Tale (1992) and Une artist/An Artist (1994). For The Hat (1999), a disturbing exploration of incest, she moved on from rotoscopy and composite images to free-hand drawing with ink on paper. In Accordion, in official competition at Cannes in 2004, she tackled the subject of love and sex in this media and technology-driven age. With Robes of War, the filmmaker again brings a feminist sensibility to a contemporary issue.
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Michèle Cournoyer at IMDB
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