Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Archipel

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Florence Blain Mbaye, Mattis Savard-Verhoeven

A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.

Transatlantique

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Documentary essay, filmed during an Atlantic crossing aboard a cargo ship. A film about immensity and faith, about the uninterrupted movements of the waves and their power. And finally, perhaps most importantly, about the men aboard, witnesses and actors in this life between two shores, isolated in the middle of infinity. Transatlantic tells the story of the journey and daily life aboard and reveals the ship as a microcosm and a metaphor : a human island in the heart of a great elsewhere.

Rosa Rosa

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city. Despite lineups, traffic jams and shortages they manage to live a peaceful life with their little girl.

Ville Neuve

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Robert Lalonde, Johanne-Marie Tremblay

Determined to stop drinking, Joseph moves into a friend's house and convinces his ex-wife Emma to join him. In the troubled times of Quebec independence referendum, this is the account of their stormy reunion.

The Day Is Listening

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

This animated film is above all a love story told with emotion and delicacy. A man loves a woman; both of them love literature. We discover the murmur of their lives, the harmony of their feelings—and we learn how their affection for novels and poetry marks their existence beyond death. The fruitful alliance of filmmaker Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s imagery and the words of Quebec poet Hélène Dorion results in a subtle, sensitive film that resonates in the viewer’s heart and mind. In its hybridization of styles and techniques, The Day Is Listening is also a most modern and daring work: its director has deftly expanded the spectrum of traditional hand-drawn animation, incorporating mosaics of real images that express a myriad of intertwining memories as well as the pulse of urban life.

Encre Noire sur Fond D'Azur

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A man has to confront the rise of the black ink.

Head

Dominic-Étienne Simard, Félix Dufour-Laperrière

A short American memory, made from manipulated found footage.

Dynamique de la pénombre

Frédéric Dallaire, Félix Dufour-Laperrière

An encounter in dark places, movements in chiaroscuro and the breath of a rising wind for the daylight to be revealed in all its amplitude.

M

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

M is a film of assemblage, juxtaposition and manipulation of animated structures. Small architectures appear and overlap. Brief nebulas arise, the most complex structures sometimes recalling constellations and other stellar clusters. This abstract film shows the results of a year of visual and technical researches. Hand-drawn animations were scanned, manipulated and combined. The resulting images were printed on paper and reworked, then put in relation according to their level of complexity and the movements which constitute them.