Michèle Cournoyer
Encyclopedia
Michèle Cournoyer is a Canadian animator
.
Cournoyer studied graphic arts
, photography and animation in Quebec, England
and Italy
. During the 1970s she worked as a set designer, art director, costume designer and screenwriter for several Quebec-based film companies.
Cournoyer won the NFB
French Animation and Youth Studio's 9th Cinéaste recherché competition in 1989. The prize money from the award allowed her to make the animated short A Feather Tale (La basse cour, 1992).
Confrontational relationships between women and men are a common theme in her work, which also tend towards the surrealistic. While she has experimented with computerization in such works as An Artist (1994), Cournoyer usually uses traditional animation
methods.
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
.
Cournoyer studied graphic arts
Graphic arts
A type of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of art forms. Graphic art is typically two-dimensional and includes calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, lithography, typography, serigraphy , and bindery. Graphic art also consists of drawn plans and layouts for interior...
, photography and animation in Quebec, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. During the 1970s she worked as a set designer, art director, costume designer and screenwriter for several Quebec-based film companies.
Cournoyer won the NFB
National Film Board of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada is Canada's twelve-time Academy Award-winning public film producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions...
French Animation and Youth Studio's 9th Cinéaste recherché competition in 1989. The prize money from the award allowed her to make the animated short A Feather Tale (La basse cour, 1992).
Confrontational relationships between women and men are a common theme in her work, which also tend towards the surrealistic. While she has experimented with computerization in such works as An Artist (1994), Cournoyer usually uses traditional animation
Traditional animation
Traditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
methods.
Filmography
- Papa! Papa! Papa! (L'Homme et l'enfant), 1969
- Alfredo, 1973
- Spaghettata (co-directed with Jacques Drouin), 1976
- La Toccata, 1976
- Old Orchard Beach P. Q., 1981
- Dolorasa, 1988
- A Feather Tale (La Basse-cour), 1992
- An Artist (Une Artiste), 1994
- The Hat (Le Chapeau), 2000
- The Accordion, (2004)
- Robes of War, (2008)