Biography
Jacques Drouin (French: [ʒak dʁwɛ̃]; 28 May 1943 – 28 August 2021) was a Canadian animator and director most known for his pinscreen animation. Jacques Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Quebec. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal for several years before leaving to study filmmaking at the UCLA in California.He first encountered the pinscreen at an animation exhibition in 1967. By the early 1970s, he was an apprentice at the National Film Board of Canada and experimenting with this unique form of animation. His first film, Three Exercises on Alexeieff's Pinscreen, was released in 1974.Until his death, Jacques Drouin continued making pinscreen animation films for the National Film Board of Canada, one of the only animators in the world to still use this difficult but rewarding process. Some of his short films are available on NFB DVD collections, and a few are available online. His film, A Hunting Lesson, was included in the Animation Show of Shows.
Filmography
all 54
Movies 54
Director 7
self 2
Soif (2014)
Making Movie History: Jacques Drouin (2014)
Imprints (2004)
Winter Days (2003)
Dreams about Alfeoni (2002)
A Hunting Lesson (2001)
Asylum (1998)
A Web of War (1996)
Ex-Child (1994)
The Glass Ark (1994)
A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor (1994)
Concision: No Time for New Ideas (1994)
A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media (1994)
A Feather Tale (1992)
Momentum (1992)
The Company of Strangers (1990)
Rendezvous Canada, 1606 (1988)
Nightangel (1986)
The Masculine Mystique (1984)
Max Ward (1984)
The Sound Collector (1982)
If You Love This Planet (1982)
Luna, Luna, Luna (1981)
Kate and Anna McGarrigle (1981)
Beginnings (1980)
A Scream from Silence (1979)
Feu l'objectivité (1979)
Twice Upon a Time (1979)
Chairmen (1978)
The Beach (1978)
Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family (1978)
The Sand Castle (1977)
Demon and Marvels (1977)
Famille et Variations (1977)
Mindscape (1976)
Pen-Hi Grad (1975)
Musicanada (1975)
Cat's Cradle (1974)
Climates (1974)
Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff (1974)
Ordinary Tenderness (1973)
Some Natives of Churchill (1973)
Françoise Durocher, Waitress (1972)
Christmas at Moose Factory (1971)
A Little Fellow from Gambo: The Joey Smallwood Story (1970)
Angel's Flight Rendez-vous (1969)
Aki'name (On the Wall) (1968)
Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout (1967)
Netsilik Eskimo Series, III: At the Spring Sea Ice Camp (1967)
Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place (1967)
Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp (1967)
A Slow Hello
OK ... Camera
Jacques Drouin en relief
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1943-05-28
Deathday2021-08-28 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceMont-Joli, Canada
CitizenshipsCanada
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