Nightangel

Romance z temnot

Canada, Czechoslovakia

1986

19 Min

Color

None

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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DIR Jacques Drouin, Břetislav Pojar

PROD Robert Forget, Vera Henzlova

DP Miroslav Kuchar, Vladimír Malík

A seamless blend of puppet animation and the pinscreen technique is used in this evocative, romantic story of a man’s obsession with a mysterious and benign spirit. When tragedy befalls him, he finds refuge in the love this nightangel has shown him. Film without words. —NFB Canada

Director

Jacques Drouin

Jacques Drouin (born 1943) is a Canadian animator and director most known for his pinscreen animations.

Jacques Drouin was born in Mont-Joli, Québec province, Canada. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal for several years before leaving to study filmmaking at the UCLA in California.

He first encountered the pinscreen at an animation exhibition in 1967. By the early 1970s, he was an apprentice at the National Film Board of Canada and experimenting with this unique form of animation. His first film, Three Exercises on Alexeieff’s Pinscreen, was released in 1974.

To this day, Jacques Drouin is making pinscreen animation films for the National Film Board of Canada, one of the only animators in the world to still use this difficult but rewarding process. Some of his short films are available on NFB DVD collections, and a few are available online. His film, A Hunting Lesson, was included in the Animation Show of Shows. —Wikipedia

Břetislav Pojar

Břetislav Pojar (born October 7, 1923) is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.

Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello (1949) based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka. Pojar served as a puppeteer under his mentor Trnka. Pojar compiled an extensive body of work as a director and animator in Czechoslovakia, where he made films in both puppet animation to the more common stop motion animation.

In the mid-1960s, Pojar emigrated to Canada, where he began a long collaboration with the National Film Board. His Canadian work is some of his best known, and it has won awards at prestigious international film festivals.

Pojar’s work is characterized by strong social commentary, such as in Balablok, where armies of small circle- and square-shaped beings war with each other until they are all wounded into indistinguishable… read more