Laurent Coderre

Laurent Coderre (1931 – 2011) was a Canadian animator, director, and musician based in Ottawa, Ontario.

Artistic career

Music, painting and medical drawing Music occupies an important place in the career of Laurent Coderre. He learned the trumpet in Ottawa, then started playing in Toronto bars attending local events. Despite some talent, he refused to pursue a professional career in music and traveled to New York. Here he oscillated between trumpet and painting to pay for his studies and his rent. He returned to Quebec afterwards, where his parents are from, to study at the Montreal School of Fine Arts where he received the first prize in anatomy and sculpture. From there, Laurent Coderre switched to the medical drawing field studying at the University of Montreal. He was the first student in medical design, and spent two years dissecting bodies and working in hospitals.

Between 1973 and 1977, Coderre left aside the production of films to give international conferences and workshops on animated film, while continuing to collaborate on various animation projects. Taking up the subject that was at the origin of Zikkaron (the human condition in the universe), he made two last animated films: Rencontre and Déclin, respectively in 1978 and 1980. He retired from the Office National Film Festival in 1984 to focus solely on painting.

Filmography

1968: Metamorphoses 1969: The flowers of Macadam (series Contemporary songs ) 1971: Zikkaron 1978: Meeting 1980: Decline (Rusting World)