The Hat (film)

The Hat
FrenchLe Chapeau
Directed byMichèle Cournoyer
Written byMichèle Cournoyer
Produced byThérèse Descary
Pierre Hébert
CinematographyPierre Landry
Edited byFernand Bélanger
Music byJean Derome
Animation byMichèle Cournoyer
Production
company
Release date
  • 1999 (1999)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryCanada

The Hat (French: Le Chapeau) is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Michèle Cournoyer and released in 1999.[1] Told entirely without dialogue, the film centres on an exotic dancer's flashbacks to childhood memories of sexual abuse.[2]

The film was screened in the International Critics' Week section of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[3] It was also screened at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival,[1] where it was named the winner of the award for Best Canadian Short Film.[4]

It subsequently won the Jutra Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001,[5] and was later named as one of the 100 best animated films of all time in a critics' survey by Variety.[3]

  1. ^ a b Mark Peranson, "Is there still a here, here?". The Globe and Mail, September 8, 2000.
  2. ^ Chris Robinson, "Where memories breathe darkness: underneath Le Chapeau of Michele Cournoyer". Take One, Vol. 10, Iss. 33 (July 2001). pp. 18-20.
  3. ^ a b Peter Robb, "Black and white all over: animator Michèle Cournoyer gets her due". Ottawa Citizen, September 10, 2015.
  4. ^ "Asian and Alberta filmmakers big winners at Toronto film festival awards". Canadian Press, September 17, 2000.
  5. ^ John Griffin, "Maelstrom hooks 8 more: Denis Villeneuve's fish fable takes best picture, actress, director". Montreal Gazette, February 26, 2001.