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Standing before an open window, a woman gazes at black clouds darkening the horizon. She loves two men-the one who shares her present, and the one who marked her past. Frozen, she struggles against surging memories evoked by objects, the sky-everything. In the clouds, a passionately intertwined couple appears. The first professional auteur short film by young French filmmaker Justine Vuylsteker, Embraced is a bittersweet visual poem that evokes fleeting sensations. With subtlety and sensuality, Vuylsteker reveals both the ruins of a relationship and traces of an intimate bond with an artistic process: the legendary pinscreen. Invented by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker (Night on Bald Mountain), this animation technique has an eminent pedigree that includes being put to use by great NFB filmmakers such as Norman McLaren, Jacques Drouin and Michèle Lemieux. Embraced, a coproduction of Offshore (France) and the NFB, is the first film made with "The Épinette," owned by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) and the twin of the NFB's own pinscreen. Vuylsteker has used it to express the passion of love and the dizzying struggle between remembrance and oblivion.

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Embraced

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NFB

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Authors

Vuylsteker, Justine
Soatto, Rafael Andrea
Roy, Julie
Préel-Cléach, Fabrice
Latourrette, Emmanuelle
Offshore (paris)
National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Subjects

Pinscreen animation.
Interpersonal relations.
Pinboard techniqueCouplesInterpersonal relationshipsSexual relations
Animated films.

Language

English

French

Multiple Language

Published

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2020.

Publication Desc

1 streaming video (5 min., 24 sec.) : sound.

Awards Note

Best Classic Animation, 2018 Special Jury Mention, 2019 Best Animation Short Film Award, 2019 Mention spéciale- Prix Cinémental pour le meilleur court métrage canadien-français, 2019 Meilleure musique, 2020

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General Note

Agency:.Produced by Offshore in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada.

Credit Note

Script, Justine Vuylsteker ; animation, Justine Vuylsteker ; direction, Justine Vuylsteker ; sound design, Olivier Calvert ; original score, Pierre Caillet ; technical direction, Pierre Plouffe ; foley, Lise Wedlock ; sound recording, Geoffrey Mitchell ; re-recording, Jean Paul Vialard ; producer, Rafael Andrea Soatto, Julie Roy, Fabrice Préel-Cléach, Emmanuelle Latourrette.

Performer Note

Voice, Bruno Marcil.

Time of Event Note

Recorded 2018.

Summary

Standing before an open window, a woman gazes at black clouds darkening the horizon. She loves two men-the one who shares her present, and the one who marked her past. Frozen, she struggles against surging memories evoked by objects, the sky-everything. In the clouds, a passionately intertwined couple appears. The first professional auteur short film by young French filmmaker Justine Vuylsteker, Embraced is a bittersweet visual poem that evokes fleeting sensations. With subtlety and sensuality, Vuylsteker reveals both the ruins of a relationship and traces of an intimate bond with an artistic process: the legendary pinscreen. Invented by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker (Night on Bald Mountain), this animation technique has an eminent pedigree that includes being put to use by great NFB filmmakers such as Norman McLaren, Jacques Drouin and Michèle Lemieux. Embraced, a coproduction of Offshore (France) and the NFB, is the first film made with "The Épinette," owned by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) and the twin of the NFB's own pinscreen. Vuylsteker has used it to express the passion of love and the dizzying struggle between remembrance and oblivion.

System Det Note

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Language Note

Bilingual.

Awards Note

Best Classic Animation, 2018
Special Jury Mention, 2019
Best Animation Short Film Award, 2019
Mention spéciale-  Prix Cinémental pour le meilleur court métrage canadien-français, 2019
Meilleure musique, 2020

Source of Description Note (R)

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