Mindscape (1976 film)

Mindscape
French	Le Paysagiste
Directed by	Jacques Drouin
Written by	Jacques Drouin
Produced by	Gaston Sarault
Edited by	Jacques Drouin
Music by	Denis Larochelle
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1976 (1976)
Running time	7 minutes, 31 seconds
Country	Canada
Languages	English, French
Budget	$38,740

Mindscape (French : Le Paysagiste) is a 1976 pinscreen animation short film by Jacques Drouin, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. ^{[1] [2]}

It was Drouin's second pinscreen work, after his 1974 work Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff, and received tremendous international recognition. ^[3]

A film without dialogue, Mindscape shows an artist stepping inside his painting and wandering through a symbolically rich landscape. ^[4] The film had a budget of $38,740 (equivalent to $195,693in 2023). ^[5]

Awards

• Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa: Special Jury Award, 1976
• CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival, Espinho, Portugal - Silver Dolphin for the Best Film 3–11 minutes (tie), 1977
• Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago: Bronze Hugo, 1977
• Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio: Chris Bronze Plaque, 1977
• Linz International Short Film Festival, Linz: Special Award for Best Musical Adaptation for a Film, 1977
• Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton: Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animated Film, 1977 ^[6]
• Golden Gate International Film Festival, San Francisco: Diploma for Outstanding Achievement, 1977
• International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen: Diploma of Honour by the International Jury, 1977
• HEMISFILM, San Antonio, TX: Bronze Medal, 1977
• Virgin Islands International Animated Film Festival, St. Thomas: Silver Venus for Best Short Film, 1977
• Long Island Film Festival, Long Island: Golden Image Award, First Prize, 1977
• American Film and Video Festival, New York: Red Ribbon, Visual Essays, 1978
• Baltimore Film Festival, Baltimore: First Prize, Best Film of the Festival, 1978
• Baltimore Film Festival, Baltimore: First Prize, Animation, 1978
• Southwest Film Festival, Tulsa: First Prize, Professional, 1978
• Kenyon Film Festival, Gambier, Ohio: First Jury Prize, 1978
• Athens Short Film Festival, Athens, Georgia: Award of Merit, 1978 ^{[7] [8]}

References

1. "Mindscape". nfb.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
2. Furniss, Maureen (December 1998). Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. Indiana University Press. pp. 54–57. ISBN   978-1-86462-039-9 . Retrieved 17 February 2012.
3. "Mindscape / Le paysagiste". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
4. "Mindscape/Le paysagiste". Collection. National Film Board of Canada . Retrieved 17 February 2012.
5. Evans 1991, p. 241.
6. "Past Winngers, 1977" (PDF). yorktonfilm.com. Yorkton Film Festival. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
7. Lenburg, Jeff (1 June 2006). Who's Who in Animated Cartoons. Applause Books. pp. 71–72. ISBN   978-1-55783-671-7 . Retrieved 17 February 2012.
8. Lerner, Loren R. (6 September 1976). "The non-Disney touch" (listed in Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature). Maclean's . p. 70. ISBN   9780802029881 . Retrieved 17 February 2012.

Works cited

• Evans, Gary (1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. University of Toronto Press. ISBN   0802027849.

External links

• Watch Mindscape on the NFB website