Using pinscreen animation, an instance of institutionalized incest in art history is examined through the portrait of Queen Mariana of Austria, who was 14 when she married her uncle.
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Canada
2024
In English and French with English subtitles
Incest
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Credits & Director
Producer
Christine Noël, Julie Roy
Screenwriter
Michèle Lemieux
ANIM
Michèle Lemieux
Editor
Annie Jean
Original Music
Robert Marcel Lepage
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 has 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, during a workshop given by Jacques Drouin, Lemieux was introduced to Alexeïeff-Parker’s pinscreen, subsequently becoming the artistic heir to this unique animation technique. She has made two short films using the pinscreen: Here and the Great Elsewhere (2012), which won several awards, and most recently, The Painting (2024).
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