le paysagiste or mindscape a surreal and breathtaking experimental short film and available for view thanks to the national film board of canada focus on animation . the nfb focus on animation site be wonderful for it educational content as well a it film collection and with a superb series of article document key technique and film and filmmaker in the history of animation . le paysagiste be a perfect representative of what the nfb site have to offer . create in 1976 use an obscure technique know a pinscreen animation and le paysagiste be consider by many the crowning achievement of the rare and but beautiful form . instead of simply host the film and the site supplementary article represent some of the best resource for information about both pinscreen animation and the filmmaker . at it essence and pinscreen work through shadow . a screen be poke through with group of pin that can be move in and out and and then be light from the side . when stick out and the pin cast a long shadow and which create black on the screen . when push in and they cause no shadow and create white . intermediate distance create different length of shadow and white and allow for a whole scale of gray . the result be what you see in le paysagiste and a beautiful tapestry that look like charcoal sketch put in motion . drouin exploit this impressionistic form in order to create a stream of conscious tour through the mind of an artist . in the film an artist be paint a lovely landscape when he find himself able to step into the picture . enter into this foreign world that be in fact his own and he begin a tour of psychological symbolism and random association and a object and setting twist and morph around him . the fleeting and transitory nature of the image belly the intense and meticulous work need to create them . pinscreen be a very labor intensive technique and which be a big reason for why it have be virtually abandon a an art . the nfb focus on animation site though reclaims and highlight historically vital work such a le paysagiste and make it a great resource for animation lover . read this and other review of online short film at shortoftheweek . com .