Mindscape is an absolutely exquisite piece of animation. This short film is the first I have seen demonstrating a form of animation using pinscreen. The thought of creating a film or any image for that matter with thousands of small pins seems like a dreadfully tedious task. But one that certainly seems worth it.

The effect it gives is that of a very detailed charcoal painting whose lines and visuals breathe with life and pulsate into its various transformations. It's a lucid experience and the marriage of classically composed music and images brings about a transcendental mood. Director Jacques Drouin crafts a brilliant short film with content vague and surreal making it reminiscent of a quiet dream. Rivers running through deep valleys become scattered clouds in the sky until the clouds begin to form into the lines of veins within a leaf. This is how the imagery works, and it is simply beautiful.

Is this what it is like to live in a fantasy world? There's something beautiful about the rapid decay of these shape-shifting elements. A film succeeds when it can tell its story with the right impact in the shortest amount of time, and that's what this film did.

I am baffled, impressed, and disturbed by the amount of time this must have taken to make.

An intoxicating swerve of animation that had my jaw dropped at some segments. The images made in this short film is truly a piece of moving artwork. Highly recommend this short film!

Watched on YouTube

A very brain-teasing but beautifully drawn short film about the infinite imagination of man and the beauty that can arise from it. At the same time, however, it also addresses the destructive power that can arise from negative thoughts.

The music is unbelievably melancholic over the whole duration and underlines for me rather the negative aspects than the positive ones.

Overall, the short film was a bit too artsy-fartsy for me. I think I understand the metaphors, but the artistic 8 minutes black and white could also mean something much more personal.

Watch it here:
youtu.be/ydiaPnag0YE

It's impressively done and I have to give credit to whoever made this and the amount of work that must have gone into it. A very surreal and bizarre experience.

Meta.

Some kind of surrealistic dreamscape, created as if you were watching an artist skip through the pages of their sketchbook while an orchestra played in the background. It reminds me of the kind of flowing, senseless dreams I used to have as a child. The pinscreen photography is absolutely stunning.

Just... Wow, NFB, what else have you been hiding from me?

It's very pleasant. It's a pleasant thought. A pleasant style of animation. A pleasant score. A sort of visual nostalgia for those times you felt you could really open up your mind and live inside a made-up world.

What can I say about this film?

So delicate and beautiful yet obscure and ambiguous. The journey of an artist as he wanders through the paintings of his mind. Thoughtful and imaginative, Mindscape was a delightful portrayal of the subjectively meaningful memories of nothing which the mind often conjures up.

The film's animation is a beauty to behold, lovely and exquisite. The expressionism which derives from the palette shades and the unique imagery helps to bestow the film's oneiric structure and content.

So wonderfully ethereal this film is!

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I initially thought this film was painted but it's actually animated using a pinscreen. I can't begin to imagine how long this beautiful piece of art took to complete but I appreciate all the effort that went into it. It's on YouTube on the NFB channel. Best 8 minutes you'll spend all day.

constant dissolve, boxed lepidoptera, the music telling me memory is legato when it's really staccato

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I’ve been trying to find this animation for years and I finally took a frame of it from a video and reverse image searched it. Now I’m here. This feels good.

I initially thought this film was painted but it's actually animated using a pinscreen. I can't begin to imagine how long this beautiful piece of art took to complete but I appreciate all the effort that went into it. It's on YouTube on the NFB channel. Best 8 minutes you'll spend all day.

ALFINETES.... STOP MOTION COM ALFINETES
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At first, I thought it was a charcoal drawing. Then, I was informed that this animated short uses the "pinscree" animation technique, which sounds like a real pain to do. It's rather impressive.

You can find it on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q9sY9Ti1DI

72/100.

The animation on this is literally mind-blowing but uh, what the fuck

perfectly fluid and mesmerizing

Absolutely loved this! What a creative and original work. This must've been a total nightmare to make.

What loving vincent could have been.

Loving vincent is mindscape lite

I'm bumping my rating up to a full five stars. It's still hard for me to comprehend the patience it took to make this film. Even in a more standard medium, it would be more clever than average, but as a rare example of pin-screen animation, it's priceless.

Flawlessly captivating