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Finding Macpherson

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Finding Macpherson is, above all, the story of an improbable friendship between the great Quebec singer Félix Leclerc and the intriguing Frank Randolph Macpherson, a chemical engineer from Jamaica who arrived in Quebec in 1917 and would inspire Leclerc's song "MacPherson." It is also a story about memory: a memory of the song that would push animation filmmaker Martine Chartrand to create the striking and poetic animation MacPherson, made by filming paintings on glass using 35mm film, while revisiting her own history. This highly personal and historical journey is captured by Serge Giguère, who accompanies Chartrand from the very start. A sympathetic look at an artist at work, Finding Macpherson is also a steadfastly humanist film that highlights the imperceptible but unbreakable links that bind us to each other. .

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Agency:.Produced by Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.
Agency - French program:.Québec Studio.

Credit Note

Script, Serge Giguère ; research, Serge Giguère ; director, Serge Giguère ; editing, Annie Jean ; producer, Nicole Hubert, Sylvie Van Brabant, Colette Loumède ; camera, Serge Giguère ; sound, Serge Giguère ; sound design, null Atelier Claude Beaugrand ; original music, Bertrand Chénier ; archival research, Odette Désormeaux ; sound editing, Claude Beaugrand ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; re-recording, Jean Paul Vialard ; executive producer, Colette Loumède ; technical direction, Vanessa Abadhir.

Performer Note

Participant, Arnold Fay, Michel Leclerc, Eileen Jourdain, Pierre Landry, Jean-Marie Leclerc, Louey Parent, Georgie Ravary, Alanis Obomsawin.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2014.

Summary

Finding Macpherson is, above all, the story of an improbable friendship between the great Quebec singer Félix Leclerc and the intriguing Frank Randolph Macpherson, a chemical engineer from Jamaica who arrived in Quebec in 1917 and would inspire Leclerc's song "MacPherson." It is also a story about memory: a memory of the song that would push animation filmmaker Martine Chartrand to create the striking and poetic animation MacPherson, made by filming paintings on glass using 35mm film, while revisiting her own history. This highly personal and historical journey is captured by Serge Giguère, who accompanies Chartrand from the very start. A sympathetic look at an artist at work, Finding Macpherson is also a steadfastly humanist film that highlights the imperceptible but unbreakable links that bind us to each other.  .

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Awards Note

Best Feature Length Documentary, 2015

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