Archipelago (2021)

Original title

Archipel

Directed by

Félix Dufour-Laperrière

Genre

documentary film, drama film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 12m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated documentary that meditates on the islands of the St. Lawrence River. It uses poetry and shifting animation styles to reflect on Quebec's sense of itself as a place caught between identities.

meditativepoeticdreamlikecontemplativevisually lushreflectiveslow-burnintimate

What happens

Archipelago (French: Archipel) is a 2021 Canadian animated documentary film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière. A poetic essay film that blends diverse styles of animation, the film is a psychogeographic meditation on the islands in the St. Lawrence River, forming a metaphor for Quebec's status as an "uncertain country" defined by the tensions between its status as a province of Canada and the Québécois people's conception of themselves as a distinct nation. The film is narrated principally by Florence Blain Mbaye and Mattis Savard-Verhoeven, with a shorter narration by Joséphine Bacon of one of her own poems in Innu-aimun. The animation team included Malcolm Sutherland, Philip Lockerby, Jens Hahn, and Eva Cvijanović. The film premiered in February 2021 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and had its Canadian premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in April. It was released commercially on October 19. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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