A true animated film about invented islands. About an imaginary, linguistic, political territory. About a real or dreamed country, or something in between. Archipelago is a film of drawings and speeches, that tells and dreams a place and its inhabitants, to tell and dream a little of our world and times.
Direction
Dufour-Laperrière treats maps like wounded poetry.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a revolutionary pamphlet illustrated by ghosts.
Director
Félix Dufour-Laperrière
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dufour-Laperrière spent years interviewing Québécois and Indigenous speakers about 'territory' without ever showing their faces—only their words become landscape.
The film's central paradox—that you can document something imaginary—directly references Benedict Anderson's 'Imagined Communities,' but makes it weirder and sadder.
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