[Anim] The Hat/Le Chapeau (Michèle Cournoyer, 1999)

[pickpocket]

Michèle Cournoyer - The Hat/Le Chapeau (1999)

I've just found on emule this disturbing and strong little film made with drawing stark black images on white paper. I can't forget its images... I'm sure you'll do the same!
A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. The customers' hats remind her of a man she knew as a child, who also wore a hat. The man entered her bedroom, turned back the sheets and laid his hand on her body. She cannot forget how he defiled her.
The Hat strikes hard with its stark, and sometimes crude, imagery of a memory that refuses to go away. The woman, conscious of having been abused body and soul, draws the audience into the shadows of a wounded childhood.
The woman can never forget. The hat becomes for her an overwhelming, invasive obsession, constantly resurfacing in a rapid and implacable succession of metamorphoses. Animator Michèle Cournoyer uses black ink on white paper to illustrate this painful tale. With a quick stroke, she throws ink on paper, creating an occasional blotch. Stains on the soul, stains on paper
The Hat is a tough, visceral experience. The filmmaker, with naked honesty, invites the audience to share in the pain of a woman, an exotic dancer whose body is on display and whose soul is forever soiled.
A film without words.

Michèle Cournoyer (1999) - Le Chapeau (The Hat).avi

Ahí os dejo una copia mejor del presente corto que el vhsrip del hilo. Se trata de un archivo .avi, de 59'43 mb, extraído del especial de La Noche + Corta dedicado al mundo de las animadoras que alguien capturó de la televisión en su día. El enlace, por si os interesa, es el siguiente:

The hat (Michèle Cournoyer).avi

Un saludo.

[canaguayo]

Me lo llevo. Gracias Pick