Archipelago (2021 film)
Archipelago (French: Archipel) is a Canadian animated documentary film, directed by Félix Dufour-Laperrière and released in 2021. 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.
| Archipelago | |
|---|---|
| French | Archipel |
| Directed by | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| Written by | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| Produced by | Félix Dufour-Laperrière Nicolas Dufour-Laperrière |
| Narrated by | Florence Blain Mbaye Mattis Savard-Verhoeven |
| Edited by | Félix Dufour-Laperrière |
| Music by | Stéphane Lafleur Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux |
Production company | L'Embuscade Films |
| Distributed by | La Distributrices de Films Miyu Distribution |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Languages | French Innu-aimun |
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.