Michèle Cournoyer

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Michèle Cournoyer (born 1943 in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian animator and film-maker.

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).

Cournoyer's animated shorts use many non-traditional methods. For The Hat (Le Chapeau), 2000, she employed ink on paper. The images that result from this method tend towards the surrealistic.

[edit] Partial 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

[edit] External links

• Michèle Cournoyer at the Internet Movie Database
• View An Artist and Le Chapeau by Cournoyer
• NFB biography