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The Hat

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A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.

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Title

The Hat

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Authors

Cournoyer, Michèle
Descary, Thérèse
Hébert, Pierre
National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Subjects

Animated films.
Child sexual abuse.
Young womenAnimated filmsMemorySexual abuse victimsIncest victimsChild abuse victimsHand-drawn animationGirls

Language

No linguistic content

Published

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2009.

Publication Desc

1 streaming video (6 min., 01 sec.) : sound.

Series

Awards Note

Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadien short film - with a cash prize of 4,000$, 2000 John Spotton Award - with a cash prize of 2,500$, 2000 Special Jury Award, 2000 AQCC-Téléfilm Canada Award - Category: Best Short or Medium-Length Film - with a cash prize of 4,000$ (ex-aequo with Du front tout le tour de la tête de Chantal DuPont), 2001 Best Animated Short , 2001 Best Animated Short Award, 2001 Special Jury Award, 2001 Special Mention FIPRESCI award, 2000 Special Jury Award - For its creativity, sensitivity and personal treatment of a difficult and grave subject such as incest., 2000 Honorable Mention - Category: Films less than 7 minutes Category A, 2000 Prize of the City of Vienna (ex-aequo with Surface Dive by Joanna Priestley) with a cash prize of 25,000ATS (approx. 2,612.50$Cdn divided between the winners), 2001 Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury, 2001

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General Note

Technical note:.Ink on paper.
Agency - French program:.Animation/Youth Studio.

Credit Note

Direction, Michèle Cournoyer ; script, Michèle Cournoyer ; animation, Michèle Cournoyer ; animation camera, Pierre Landry ; editing, Fernand Bélanger ; original music, Jean Derome ; sound design, Fernand Bélanger, Jean Derome ; sound editing, Esther Auger ; foley, Monique Vézina ; sound recording, Geoffrey Mitchell, Robert Langlois ; recording, Serge Boivin, Jean Paul Vialard ; producer, Thérèse Descary, Pierre Hébert.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 1999.

Summary

A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. She recalls an incident from her childhood in which she was physically abused by a male visitor. This inner journey brings back painful memories, including the obsessive image of a hat. Black-ink drawings, spare and rapidly executed, flow together in a succession of troubling and striking metamorphoses. The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. With naked honesty, animator Michèle Cournoyer invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled. A film without words.

System Det Note

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Telefilm Canada Award for Best Canadien short film - with a cash prize of 4,000$, 2000
John Spotton Award - with a cash prize of 2,500$, 2000
Special Jury Award, 2000
AQCC-Téléfilm Canada Award - Category: Best Short or Medium-Length Film - with a cash prize of 4,000$ (ex-aequo with Du front tout le tour de la tête de Chantal DuPont), 2001
Best Animated Short , 2001
Best Animated Short Award, 2001
Special Jury Award, 2001
Special Mention FIPRESCI award, 2000
Special Jury Award - For its creativity, sensitivity and personal treatment of a difficult and grave subject such as incest., 2000
Honorable Mention - Category: Films less than 7 minutes Category A, 2000
Prize of the City of Vienna (ex-aequo with Surface Dive by Joanna Priestley) with a cash prize of 25,000ATS (approx. 2,612.50$Cdn divided between the winners), 2001
Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury, 2001

Source of Description Note (R)

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).