The Sommets du cinéma d’animation are thrilled to unveil the official poster for their 24th edition, created by experimental animator Alexandre Roy. The work was produced using a pinscreen. With its frame pierced by hundreds of thousands of moving pins that act as analog pixels, this 1930s invention builds a surprising bridge between engraving techniques, animated film, and digital imagery.

“The rediscovery of this medium perfectly illustrates an ideal in which the artist creates an entire world on his own, without ever setting foot outside the studio,” emphasizes Guillaume Lafleur, programming director at the Cinémathèque québécoise.

Fascinated by the history of motion pictures, Alexandre Roy is particularly interested by the dialogue between tangible media — optical toys, 35mm film, pinscreens — and digital processing. In 2004, watching Jacques Drouin’s film Empreintes on the National Film Board of Canada’s Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen sparked a deep fascination for this strange instrument, of which only a single working example remained in the world at the time. The emergence of new models, designed by French engineer Alexandre Noyer, has contributed to the medium’s renaissance since 2015. In 2021, the media arts center La Bande Vidéo, winner of the 2025 René-Jodoin Award at the Sommets du Cinéma d’animation, acquired a large-format Noyer screen, now made available to artists as part of a residency program. The visual for the 2026 Sommets was produced on this screen.

The Sommets du cinéma d’animation would like to extend their warmest thanks to La Bande Vidéo and the Faculté d’aménagement, d’architecture, d’art et de design of Université Laval for their invaluable collaboration in the production of their 2026 visual.

The 24th Sommets du cinéma d’animation will take place from May 11 to 16, 2026.
The full program will be announced on April 21.

The festival is produced by the Cinémathèque québécoise.