Jason Todd
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Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
Duration: 26 minutesSubscription access
The film is a portrait of a deserted fisherman’s village in Northern Norway, shot on analog 65/70mm film with a specially developed "nature animation" technique. In one continuous shot, we "fly" along the remains of an internal village road, while at the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed. Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between c...
Belle River
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2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
NYC RGB
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With _NYC RGB_ Viktoria Schmid shows us a view of New York that we’ve never seen before, made possible by historical color film processes. The material, triple exposed with different color filters, mixes colors, space, and time to a perception that is possible only in film. Evidence of cinema’s potential for bursting open reality.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
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_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Pitié pour les étranges
A documentary without dialogue shot in part at la Maison du pêcheur, in Percé, featuring future members of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec). This short film, recently rediscovered by filmmaker Félix Rose, has hardly ever been broadcast.
Gino Bouleau
At 42, Gino left the city and retired, settling in an isolated cabin where he lives simply and fully.
Fantasma Neon
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João is a bicycle delivery boy who dreams of owning his own motorcycle. He was told it would be like a musical film. But reality will quickly catch up with him...
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
A Life Like Any Other
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"My father immortalized the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I'm revisiting these films to tell another story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom." (Faustine Cros)
Budapest Silo
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He has been doing this job for over 30 years and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, especially because he has been exposed to crop d...
Lettres 16mm
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Two filmmakers exchange their impressions of places and moments in time through cine-letters, against a soundtrack that oscillates between the real and the ethereal. The sounds play a narrative role and carry the moving images through this encounter made possible with alternating reels of 16mm film.
Videoletters
Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
The Dismantling of Baveuse City
The Dismantling of Baveuse City
Duration: 16 minutesThe behind-the-scenes process of creating a musical album entitled _Bienvenue à Baveuse City;_ a colourful, playful universe invented by rapper Marie-Gold.
A Score for Women's Voices
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Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic World March of Women was a bold initiative of the Québec Federation of Women and represented a turning point in global solidarity. Inspired and carried by this movement, _A Score for Women's Voices_ takes us, to the rhythm of a song, to relive the ...
OrHoDa
Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures. The gifts of the sky were only visible to those who honor the powers that flow through the vast taiga. To find what human desires, ritual offerings to the mountain’s guardian spirits must be properly performed. But most importantly, one must face the gods with a serene, translucent heart. An animated reinterpretation of an...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Duration: 3h22In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...
Quitter Chouchou
"I spend the holidays at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful."
Tolyatti Adrift
Duration: 2h20
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A portrait of the disenchanted youth of Tolyatti, a stricken city that was once a symbol of Soviet progress and the automobile. Filmmaker Laura Sistero encounters a youth adrift, expressing its dreams of escapism through crazy races aboard old, cobbled-together Lada cars, in a film propelled by spectacular slides to the rhythm of an electro-rock soundtrack.
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
A Year Along the Abandoned Road
Duration: 26 minutesSubscription access
The film is a portrait of a deserted fisherman’s village in Northern Norway, shot on analog 65/70mm film with a specially developed "nature animation" technique. In one continuous shot, we "fly" along the remains of an internal village road, while at the same time a whole year passes by at 50 000 times normal speed. Most of the year, the village of Børfjord lies empty with virgin snow between c...
Belle River
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2019\. Spring flooding in Mississippi hits record highs. In Louisiana, the residents of Pierre Part are preparing for the worst. Barring an unexpected turn of events, local authorities will soon be forced to open the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, in order to save the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge from further uncontrolled flooding. Faith and resilience are the two best weapons th...
NYC RGB
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With _NYC RGB_ Viktoria Schmid shows us a view of New York that we’ve never seen before, made possible by historical color film processes. The material, triple exposed with different color filters, mixes colors, space, and time to a perception that is possible only in film. Evidence of cinema’s potential for bursting open reality.
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
These Streets Will Never Look the Same
Duration: 3h12Subscription access
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience.
One Nation Under
Subscription access
_One Nation Under_ is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadowed by them.
Pitié pour les étranges
A documentary without dialogue shot in part at la Maison du pêcheur, in Percé, featuring future members of the FLQ (Front de libération du Québec). This short film, recently rediscovered by filmmaker Félix Rose, has hardly ever been broadcast.
Gino Bouleau
At 42, Gino left the city and retired, settling in an isolated cabin where he lives simply and fully.
Fantasma Neon
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João is a bicycle delivery boy who dreams of owning his own motorcycle. He was told it would be like a musical film. But reality will quickly catch up with him...
A Bird Called Memory
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A bird called Memory has forgotten how to fly back home. Lua, a trans woman, searches for Memory in the streets, but the city can sometimes be a hostile place...
A Life Like Any Other
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"My father immortalized the most beautiful moments of his life in family films, while my mother's difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I'm revisiting these films to tell another story: that of a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom." (Faustine Cros)
Budapest Silo
József works at the largest still-operational grain silo in Budapest. He has been doing this job for over 30 years and lives in a container home next to the structure, where trucks and trains rumble past his window. When he is lowered into the ten-story-deep silos to clean them, he looks like a scuba diver at work. It’s dangerous work for József, especially because he has been exposed to crop d...
Lettres 16mm
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Two filmmakers exchange their impressions of places and moments in time through cine-letters, against a soundtrack that oscillates between the real and the ethereal. The sounds play a narrative role and carry the moving images through this encounter made possible with alternating reels of 16mm film.
Videoletters
Between February and June 1991, filmmakers Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin exchanged several video letters (four by Kramer, three by Dwoskin) shot in Hi-8. These _Videoletters_ freed them from the formalities that burdened their work and reflections at the time. Through this exchange, they began to learn and observe anew.
The Dismantling of Baveuse City
The Dismantling of Baveuse City
Duration: 16 minutesThe behind-the-scenes process of creating a musical album entitled _Bienvenue à Baveuse City;_ a colourful, playful universe invented by rapper Marie-Gold.
A Score for Women's Voices
Subscription access
Between March and October 2000, millions of people around the world took to the streets to denounce poverty and violence against women. The historic World March of Women was a bold initiative of the Québec Federation of Women and represented a turning point in global solidarity. Inspired and carried by this movement, _A Score for Women's Voices_ takes us, to the rhythm of a song, to relive the ...
OrHoDa
Along the Amur River, mountains abound with mysterious lively treasures. The gifts of the sky were only visible to those who honor the powers that flow through the vast taiga. To find what human desires, ritual offerings to the mountain’s guardian spirits must be properly performed. But most importantly, one must face the gods with a serene, translucent heart. An animated reinterpretation of an...
Queerying Nature
For the past twenty years, scientists, armed with a fresh and liberated perspective, have revealed an animal world where sexualities, genders, and families rhyme with diversity. Being queer: it's natural! From one encounter to another, the film intertwines the reflections and emotions of two artists inspired by this queer nature and the plurality of animal behaviors, poetically illustrated.
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Duration: 3h22In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate lives of Claudia and Violeta. The fight they lead with their comrades against patriarchal violence is visceral and embodied. Convinced of their role at the center of an ongoing revolution that intersects with so many struggles, and in defiance of...
Quitter Chouchou
"I spend the holidays at my mother’s. The atmosphere is tense: not only does she find it hard to accept that I’m not the girly daughter she dreamt of having, but she is also in the middle of divorcing my stepfather. The stay promises to be eventful."
