"Le Paysagiste / Mindscape" by Jacques Drouin (1976)

Jacques Druen (Drouin) - Canadian director-animator, continuing the tradition of one of the rarest methods of animation - also known as "Pinscreen". It is a technique invented in 1931 by French cartoonist Russian origin, Alexander Alekseev (1901-1982), author of the legendary cartoon on the novel by Gogol's "Nose", together with his wife, Claire Parker (1906-1981). The screen consists of thousands of needles, speakers at 3-5 cm (when viewed from a distance, he gives the impression of a matte velvety surface). In his hand and presses down, and forcing some of them in depth, get print. With different lighting arises image, an engraving of a liquid.
Born in 1943 in Mont Jolie (Quebec), Druen spent several years in the school of Fine Arts, "Ecole des beaux-arts" in Montreal, before going to study film production at University of California at Los Angeles. With the invention Alekseeva Druen was first introduced in 1967. As a trainee of the National Film Board of Canada in the early 70's he was making short cartoon film "Trois exercices sur l'ecran d'epingles d'Alexeieff" ( «Three of experience with needle shield Alekseeva"). "Le Paysagiste" ( "landscape") - second job Druena, but it is - a poetic, picturesque, deep and subtle - is considered one of the world's peaks pinskrin animation. This is a fantastic, surreal cartoon in which the artist gets in his own painting and explores the landscape of his imagination … Variant translation: "Landscape of reason."

Run time: 8 min