Frédéric Back - The Man Who Planted Trees

A screening that brings together three of Fréderic Back’s masterpieces, a lover of nature and animal rights activist, four-time nominee and two-time Academy Award winner, highly admired by his peers and the general public. The screenings starts with a film that honors Quebequois tradition and culture, followed by two pieces where the landscape and the natural world are at the centre of a narrative of great poetic and aesthetic delicateness.

Dandelion's Odyssey

Recycled Animation

The films of this screening share a common idea: the reutilization or recycling of objects and other existing elements, whether they are natural or man-made. The screening starts with what is considered to be the first stop-motion film in history, where the protagonists are matches, followed by films that use natural elements such as sand, insect shells, fish or even the blood of the artist, and finally as films that recycle other man-made objects.

Landscapes in Motion

Animation film is largely dominated by its human-like and anthropomorphic characters. In this screening, that spotlight is transferred to the landscapes, where its natural elements are sometimes used in a human-like way to tell stories, other times to serve as an environment whose presence is essential to give strength to the plot, or still in the privileged situation of being the actual centre of attention, that can be expressed in a more explicit or abstract way.