Frédéric Savard
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Meezan
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Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...
A Fidai Film
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Amisk
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In 1973, the James Bay Festival took place over nine days in Montreal. This historic one-of-a-kind event was held in support of the James Bay Cree whose territory, resources and culture were threatened by the expansion of hydro-electric dams. First Nations, Métis and Inuit performers came from across North America to show their support in an act of Indigenous unity and solidarity few people in ...
Kubota
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A film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance. From within a cage-like structure filled with traditional musical instruments and sound-making devices fashioned from ordinary objects and toys, Kubota creates an aural/visual montage of musical notes and noises. Praised by music educators as a valuable tool for teaching creativity in sound explora...
Improvisations : nouvelle musique au Québec
Improvisations : nouvelle musique au Québec
Duration: 57 minutesSubscription access
This video illustrates the emergence of non-commercial and improvisational music of the 70's. We are introduced to various groups and their individual members through a series of interviews and recording sessions. The video captures improvisational sequences showcasing the musicians' expressions, their gestures and their instruments. The musicians believe that their music is above all an improv...
Sisters with Transistors
_Sisters with Transistors_ is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara...
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Duration: 20 minutesSubscription access
The photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns his lens on the Québec scene, finding there the same fascination with form and movement that gives his work a mark of individuality.
Along the Coast
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A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
Chanson de gestes
In a poetic fashion, a game around daily gestures. Spontaneous choreography of the hands, offices where newspapers are cut, rooms where one paints, where one undresses. A hand passed through his hair, a wrist twirling on an archer, an obsessed search.
Asanasa
_Asanasa_ is a trippy trip through the boys-own histories of rocketry and space flight, a wry commentary on gendered fantasies of off-world exploration. The film comprises found footage specially sourced from a 16mm counter-archive, combined with meticulously hand-woven 35mm leaders and eccentric countdowns from the _Lost Leaders_ project. The original score was composed and performed Jackie Ga...
Peacock’s Monologues
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Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder
La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder
This film shows the workers at Wonder who, on the morning of June 10 1968, voted to return to work after three weeks of strike. A young woman refuses to return. She shouts: "I won't come back, no I won't. I don't want to go in this disgusting jail anymore." Around her, workers gather. The union representatives, architects of the recovery, approached and tried to calm her down. A student passing...
Renegade breakdown Live
Envisioned as a laboratory experiment, the freeform concert was shot and directed by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Côté, who captured Marie Davidson and her new band L’Œil Nu’s first-ever performance.
May 68, a Fine Piece of Work
Shot during the Paris events, based on exclusive interviews and archives, _May 68, a Fine Piece of Work_ sheds a new light on this social revolution, using powerful testimonies from citizens and celebrities. Starting with the well-known speech by President Charles de Gaulle about the public forces actions during the riots, the film brings testimonies from both sides: the politicians and the int...
La Soufrière
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
From Arthur Lipsett, another incisive short film that looks at human might, majesty and mayhem.
Swing la baquaise
The personal and professional life of whom we commonly know as La Bolduc, told by Simone and Nana de Varennes who knew the successful singer in the 1930s. Behind the dazzling verses of this courageous Gaspesian, the film draws a parallel with the working class of the 1960s.
Class of Struggle
The birth of a union branch in a watch-making factory in 1968. This is the first film made by the workers of the Medvedkine group. How Suzanne manages to mobilize the other women at the factory, despite the mistrust of the union leaders and the intimidation of management.
The Revolution is Only A Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
The Revolution is Only A Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ’68 and in Rome where the actor and director was featured in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
Meezan
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Set in south-western Iran, in the province of Khuzestan and bordering with Iraq, _Meezan_ (scale) is an observational and immersive experience, a journey from the sea to the land, about labor at the margins of petro-capitalism in three chapters. Despite the massive industrialization of the region, waterways of Khuzestan remain a significant source of income for the native communities who are mo...
A Fidai Film
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In the summer of 1982, the Israeli army invaded Beirut. During this time it raided the Palestinian Research Center and looted its entire archive. The archive contained historical documents of Palestine, including a collection of still and moving images. Taking this as a premise, _A Fidai Film_ explores the visual memory of this looting and appropriates images now in the hands of Israeli archives.
Amisk
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In 1973, the James Bay Festival took place over nine days in Montreal. This historic one-of-a-kind event was held in support of the James Bay Cree whose territory, resources and culture were threatened by the expansion of hydro-electric dams. First Nations, Métis and Inuit performers came from across North America to show their support in an act of Indigenous unity and solidarity few people in ...
Kubota
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A film featuring architect, sculptor, and musician Nobuo Kubota in a sound-sculpture performance. From within a cage-like structure filled with traditional musical instruments and sound-making devices fashioned from ordinary objects and toys, Kubota creates an aural/visual montage of musical notes and noises. Praised by music educators as a valuable tool for teaching creativity in sound explora...
Improvisations : nouvelle musique au Québec
Improvisations : nouvelle musique au Québec
Duration: 57 minutesSubscription access
This video illustrates the emergence of non-commercial and improvisational music of the 70's. We are introduced to various groups and their individual members through a series of interviews and recording sessions. The video captures improvisational sequences showcasing the musicians' expressions, their gestures and their instruments. The musicians believe that their music is above all an improv...
Sisters with Transistors
_Sisters with Transistors_ is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly transform how we produce and listen to music today. The film maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara...
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Le Quebec as seen by Cartier-Bresson
Duration: 20 minutesSubscription access
The photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson were the first ever to be displayed in the Louvre, Paris. In this film the world-famous photographer turns his lens on the Québec scene, finding there the same fascination with form and movement that gives his work a mark of individuality.
Along the Coast
Subscription access
A tourist and documentary visit along the Riviera. Exoticism, the colors of tourism, those of the carnival and Eden. An island. Parasols that close at the end on a pretty song by Delerue. The French Riviera seen in color by Agnès Varda, who cultivates the unusual image. A commissioned film transformed into an essay on tourism, not without a certain humor.
Chanson de gestes
In a poetic fashion, a game around daily gestures. Spontaneous choreography of the hands, offices where newspapers are cut, rooms where one paints, where one undresses. A hand passed through his hair, a wrist twirling on an archer, an obsessed search.
Asanasa
_Asanasa_ is a trippy trip through the boys-own histories of rocketry and space flight, a wry commentary on gendered fantasies of off-world exploration. The film comprises found footage specially sourced from a 16mm counter-archive, combined with meticulously hand-woven 35mm leaders and eccentric countdowns from the _Lost Leaders_ project. The original score was composed and performed Jackie Ga...
Peacock’s Monologues
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Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder
La Reprise du travail aux usines Wonder
This film shows the workers at Wonder who, on the morning of June 10 1968, voted to return to work after three weeks of strike. A young woman refuses to return. She shouts: "I won't come back, no I won't. I don't want to go in this disgusting jail anymore." Around her, workers gather. The union representatives, architects of the recovery, approached and tried to calm her down. A student passing...
Renegade breakdown Live
Envisioned as a laboratory experiment, the freeform concert was shot and directed by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Côté, who captured Marie Davidson and her new band L’Œil Nu’s first-ever performance.
May 68, a Fine Piece of Work
Shot during the Paris events, based on exclusive interviews and archives, _May 68, a Fine Piece of Work_ sheds a new light on this social revolution, using powerful testimonies from citizens and celebrities. Starting with the well-known speech by President Charles de Gaulle about the public forces actions during the riots, the film brings testimonies from both sides: the politicians and the int...
La Soufrière
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog catches the eeriness of an abandoned city, with stop lights cycling over an empty intersection.
A Trip Down Memory Lane
From Arthur Lipsett, another incisive short film that looks at human might, majesty and mayhem.
Swing la baquaise
The personal and professional life of whom we commonly know as La Bolduc, told by Simone and Nana de Varennes who knew the successful singer in the 1930s. Behind the dazzling verses of this courageous Gaspesian, the film draws a parallel with the working class of the 1960s.
Class of Struggle
The birth of a union branch in a watch-making factory in 1968. This is the first film made by the workers of the Medvedkine group. How Suzanne manages to mobilize the other women at the factory, despite the mistrust of the union leaders and the intimidation of management.
The Revolution is Only A Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
The Revolution is Only A Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ’68 and in Rome where the actor and director was featured in the film Partner by Bertolucci.
