Félix Dufour-Laperrière, M | 2009 | 8min | DV | Canada
M is a film of assemblage, juxtaposition and manipulation of animated structures. Small architectures appear and overlap. Brief nebulas arise, the most complex structures sometimes recalling constellations and other stellar clusters. This abstract film is the result of a year of visual and technical research. Hand-drawn animations were scanned, manipulated and collated. The resulting compositions were printed on paper and edited, then ordered according to their level of complexity and the movements that constitute them. Editing these images was done with constant concern about the organization of the frame, its center and periphery, and the succession of complementary rhythms and densities. The electroacoustic soundtrack combines noise music, digital processing and recordings of percussive instruments. It evolves with the image, underlining certain events, occupying emptiness, and taking advantage of the synchronisms and interdependences therefore created. M is thus a short textured and sensory film in which density and release, tension and soft fall, geometric abstraction and digital manipulations alternate.
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Félix Dufour-Laperrière was born in 1981, in Chicoutimi, Québec. He studied, lives and works in Montreal. His films have been presented in numerous national and international galleries, museums and festivals. He co-founded the online gallery L’appentis.
