“Feathertale”
One of my favorite quotes from the reading this half of the
semester is “To animate is to give life and soul to a design not through the
copying of reality but through its transformation.”
I believe the point of this quote directly correlates to one
of the films we watched in class.
“Feathertale” by Michèle Cournoyer is a five minute film
made in 1992. According to NFB, a woman, taking on her lover's fantasies,
adorns herself in her finest feathers and assumes a seductive but demeaning
role. Caught up in his own game, the man plays on to the bitter end--a cruel
game in which love is stripped of its golden glow, leaving only the naked
reality of dependency and desperation.
Michèle made inventive use of the rotoscope (a technique
that allows animators to draw over live-action footage) when she recorded
herself naked and layered animation on top of it for this film. When I viewed
it for the first time, I felt as if Michèle managed to find an incredibly rare
balance between reality and fantasy. The rotoscoping added a sense of rawness that
the film would’ve lacked otherwise, but the drawing made it possible for Michèle
to share a very personal story with the public.
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