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    Le tableau | The Painting | Il quadro

    Michèle Lemieux
    Canada | 2024 | 11’56 | Italian Preview

    Le tableau explores the 1652 portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria by Velásquez. An experimental work which is also a poem of a film: a meditation on the brutality of institutionalized incest and art’s power to capture the soul.

    Direction: Michèle Lemieux
    Animation: Michèle Lemieux
    Screenplay: Michèle Lemieux
    Editing: Annie Jean
    Sound Design: Catherine van der Donckt
    Sound Recording: Geoffrey Michel
    Re-Recording Mixer: Jean Paul Vialard
    Music: Robert Marcel Lepage (musica originale)
    Voice: Annie Jean
    Producer: Christine Noël, Julie Roy
    Production: National Film Board Canada

    Michèle Lemieux

    Michèle Lemieux is an illustrator and animation filmmaker who has taught at UQAM’s school of design for over 30 years. Since the late 1970s, she’s worked on 15 illustrated books for young people, including Stormy Night (1997), which was adapted to the screen in 2003 at the NFB. In 2006 she was introduced to the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen, subsequently becoming the artistic heir to this unique animation. Her pinscreen work Here and the Great Elsewhere (2012) won a number of awards.