Bernard Longpré

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Bernard Longpré (* 1937 in Montreal ; † June 24, 2002 ibid) was a Canadian animator , film director and painter.

Life

Longpré studied at the Institut des arts graphiques; one of his teachers was Albert Dumouchel . In 1957 René Jodoin brought him to the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where he initially worked as an animator on documentaries and educational films for the Ministry of Defense . His early work as an animator includes An Introduction to Jet Engines (1959) and Bandwith (1960) by René Jodoin. Longpré made his directorial debut in 1964 with the animated short educational film Les restituteurs à bille de l'Antac . In his following short film Test 0558 he experimented with the possibilities of computer animation .

This was followed by numerous other animated films with a wide variety of animation techniques, which Longpré directed, including the pixilation film Monsieur Pointu , which was nominated in 1976 for an Oscar in the category Best Animated Short Film. His last film was Félicité from 1989, which already made clear his turn to painting. Lonpré retired from the film business in 1989 and worked as a painter until his death in 2002.

Filmography

  • 1964: Les restituteurs à bille de l'Antac
  • 1965: test 0558
  • 1966: En février
  • 1966: Dimensions
  • 1968: L'évasion des carrousels
  • 1969: Tête en fleurs
  • 1970: Dimension soleils
  • 1973: Nébule
  • 1974: Branch et Branch
  • 1975: Contes de la mère loi sur cinéma
  • 1976: Monsieur Pointu
  • 1980: Les naufragés du quartier
  • 1985: La solution
  • 1987: Itinéraire
  • 1989: Félicité

Nominations

literature

  • Longpré, Bernard . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 211-212.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See the biography of Bernard Longpré on www3.nfb.ca ( memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www3.nfb.ca
  2. ^ Biography of Bernard Longpré on The Canadian Encyclopedia
personal data
SURNAME Longpré, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian animator, film director and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 2002
Place of death Montreal