Catherine LePage's 'Ultra Strong' Brings Heavy Metal Aesthetics and Empowerment Themes to Annecy Animation Festival
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Destiny Jackson
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The National Film Board of Canada returns to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with Ultra Strong, a surreal, visually inventive animated short directed by Catherine LePage. The film transforms the universal highs and lows of young love into a coming-of-age journey inspired by LePage's own experiences, trading the fairy tale aesthetics of her Oscar-winning stop-motion short The Girl Who Cried Pearls for a heavy metal visual style. The article features interviews with LePage and producer Christine Noël, discussing the film's themes of empowerment, the pitfalls of love, and the creative process behind the animation.
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The celebrated Canadian studio traded the aesthetics of fairy tales for those of heavy metal.
Fresh off an Academy Award win earlier this year for the stop-motion short 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls', the National Film Board of Canada returned to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival with another distinctly personal animated story.
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