Mindscape (1976 film)

Mindscape
FrenchLe Paysagiste
Directed byJacques Drouin
Written byJacques Drouin
Produced byGaston Sarault
Edited byJacques Drouin
Music byDenis Larochelle
Production
company
Release date
  • 1976 (1976)
Running time
7 minutes, 31 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish, French
Budget$38,740

Mindscape (French: Le Paysagiste) is a 1976 pinscreen animation short film by Jacques Drouin, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.[1][2]

It was Drouin's second pinscreen work, after his 1974 work Trois exercices sur l'écran d'épingles d'Alexeieff, and received tremendous international recognition.[3]

A film without dialogue, Mindscape shows an artist stepping inside his painting and wandering through a symbolically rich landscape.[4] The film had a budget of $38,740 (equivalent to $195,693 in 2023).[5]

  1. ^ "Mindscape". nfb.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  2. ^ Furniss, Maureen (December 1998). Art in Motion: Animation Aesthetics. Indiana University Press. pp. 54–57. ISBN 978-1-86462-039-9. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Mindscape / Le paysagiste". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Mindscape/Le paysagiste". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  5. ^ Evans 1991, p. 241.