WHEN ANIMATION MARRIES DANCE

Dance and body movements inspire animation filmmakers, who seek to reproduce their grace, rhythm and energy, using both traditional techniques and new technologies. It’s true that the two disciplines are closely related. Sometimes, dance movements are reproduced in animation, while at other times, it is above all a choreographic conception of staging that inspires animators. Based on the fabrication and organization of movement, animated film is an art of choreography: drawn choreography, choreography of volumes and objects, etc. This session presents examples of the happy crossroads between animation and dance in this grand ballet of eleven titles.

In the presence of Marco de Blois, curator and programmer at the Cinémathèque québécoise and artistic director of the Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal and the film director Véronique Paquette (Loca) & Jo Roy (Corpus and the Wandering).

In partnership with the Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal and the Festival international du film d’animation d’Annecy.

On the programme  (61 min)

Patrick Watson – Love Songs For Robots (official video) by Clyde Henry Productions
2015 / Canada / 3 min 53 s
Inspired by the ballet and sculpture of avant-garde artist Oskar Schlemmer, and featuring performances and choreography by Mistaya Hemingway (La La La Human Steps), Love Songs for Robots is an attempt to create the sort of film Martians might make for humans.

Etreintes by Alain Escalle
2020 / France / 12 min 44 s
All that remains of the space left empty by our embraces is the circle of memories. A dance, bodies stretching, tearing and embracing. Persecution, war perhaps, while the breath of absence and the weight of solitude ring out.

Eine murul (Breakfast on the Grass) by Erik Alunurm, Mihkel Reha, Mari-Liis Rebane, Mari Pakkas
2011 / Estonie / 4 min 30 s
It takes 99% hard work and 1% talent to create a masterpiece!

In Perpetuum by Birute Sodeikaite
2023 / Canada / 11 min
A journey of a young woman going through metamorphosis of becoming another and trying to tame her new self.

Marie. Eduardo. Sophie by Thomas Corriveau
2022 / Canada / 3 min 15 s
An immersive diving into the movement of bodies and painting, with three magnificent performers of contemporary dance from Montreal, Marie Mougeolle, Eduardo Ruiz Vergara et Sophie Corriveau.

Moi by Inès Sedan
2011 / France / 6 min
In a rigid, highly parameterized world, a man must hide his homosexuality and dance, dance, until he has the courage to face the rules and reveal who he really is.

Loca by Véronique Paquette
2024 /Canada / 5 min
A woman dives into an intoxicating tango that transfigures her.

Onduleur minéral by Alexandra Levasseur
2023 / Canada / 2 min
Mineral Inverter is a kaleidoscopic choreography featuring six creatures that transit between drawing and sculpture. To the rhythm of the music, the six characters are composed and decomposed in a dance of matter and are transformed into different ecosystems of planet Earth.

Corpus and the Wandering by Jo Roy
2024/ Canada / 7 min
One dancer, one body, one phone. In a time of collective alienation and technological mass control, one woman rediscovers her soul and reclaims her mind. A short, experimental self-portrait composed of 100 video screens, Corpus and the Wandering transcends the walls of a fragmented grid system to uncover the shared humanity in each of us, and our place in the cosmos.

The Crow by Glenn Marshall
2021 / Royaume-Uni / 3 min
A mesmerising animated film using AI to infuse a dance with the ancient personality of the crow.

No, I Don’t Want To Dance ! by Andrea Vinciguerra
2019 / Royaume-Uni, Italie / 3 min
In a world already full of problems to think about, we hardly notice how dangerous dancing is. Sometimes not even when it becomes blatant.