The Trenches
- Claude Cloutier,
- 2010,
- 5 min 54 s
This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. Blending archival images and Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.
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Film Credit
- script
- Claude Cloutier
- animation
- Claude Cloutier
- direction
- Claude Cloutier
- editing
- José Heppell
- sound design
- Olivier Calvert
- camera
- Éric Barbeau
- actor
- Gabriel Boileau-Cloutier
- costumes
- Francesca Chamberland
- Sylvie Charbonneau
- Sylvie Guillard
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- foley
- Lise Wedlock
- voice
- Marc-André Bélanger
- David Laurin
- Martin Watier
- Patrick Chouinard
- Alexandre Fortin
- Guillaume Champoux
- special advisor
- Marcel Jean
- historical research
- Jocelyne Perrier
- producer
- Marc Bertrand
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