Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
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Notes from Eremocene
Duration: 2h36
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Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
Animal Macula
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Monangambéee
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With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
Mecánicos piratas de Lima
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
Walden - Reels 4 to 6
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Sheroes
Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Duration: 3h18Subscription access
Feature documentary on writer Malcolm Lowry. In the grip of his demons, nightmares and fantasies, obsessed by the suicide of one of his friends, Lowry lived a long alcoholic agony. This did not prevent him from delivering to the world pages that place him among the greatest writers of the 20th century. People who knew him well tell of the underworld journey of this man, whose soul was wandering...
Another Road Home
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
Scrapbook
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In the sixties, Jeffrey Paull gave a group of young people with autism the opportunity to film themselves and the world around them. Mike Hoolboom draws from this archive to continue Paull’s mission: to express the emotions of people who are condemned by the authorities and by other people’s perceptions, to live in silence. Donna Washington, a former patient, comments on the images and reports ...
Summer Nights
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As night falls on the outskirts of Montreal, the shrill sound of scooters pierces the silence. Helly and Nathan roam the streets in search of the best skateboarding spots, dreaming of the most beautiful tricks.
The Pinochet case
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On Thuesday September 22 1998, General Augusto Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip. He rested for a few days. He had tea with Margaret Thatcher. He had every back pain and underwent an operation in a London clinic. Upon waking from surgery, he was arrested by the police. Who was responsible for this?
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Duration: 22 minutesPapers, photographs, sketches, tubes of paint and canvases litter Francis Bacon's London studio. It's a place where friends, lovers and eccentric figures pass through, haunting his canvases after a mysterious creative alchemy. Bacon explains in French his carnal relationship with his canvases, the painters who inspire him, and his relationship with alcohol, violence and death. He talks about hi...
La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
Duration: 1h20Cedric is eight years old. One day, he has stomach pains. During the following six months, he will mostly live in a small unit for children suffering from cancer, on the fifth floor of the Institut Curie in Paris. His words and the story intertwine with those of Steve, Dolores and the other children. Cedric will lead us each time a bit further, through all the trials that he'll face until his r...
The Family of the Forest
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Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
The Wind at My Door
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This feature documentary offers an intimate portrait of living with bipolar disorder. Filmmaker Pierre Goupil (_Celui qui voit les heures, La vérité est un mensonge_) reveals his uneasy relationship with his illness and his journey as an artist in a society that struggles to accept those on the fringe. A product of the 1960s intellectual scene, Goupil continues to question the world and fight f...
The Hamlet Syndrome
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lake of Fire
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
Notes from Eremocene
Duration: 2h36
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Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
Animal Macula
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Monangambéee
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With a jazz soundtrack from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, this film denounces the crimes committed by the Portuguese in Angola. Here, we see the torture of a prisoner that results from the colonizer’s ignorance. A song whose meaning is “White Death”, _Monangambéee_, is a rallying cry against the colonial abuses in Angola.
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
Duration: 52 minutesPortrait of the Guadeloupean filmmaker Sarah Maldoror and her political struggle for the freedom of African peoples. A committed filmmaker, she has always believed in the importance of cinema to depict political and social changes and struggles for independence. Having gained real-life experience during the bloody conflicts stemming from colonialism, she expresses herself through cinema, claimi...
Mecánicos piratas de Lima
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
Walden - Reels 4 to 6
Filmed from 1964 to 1969, Walden was Jonas Mekas’ first completed diary film, composed of moments, events, and experiences he immortalized with his Bolex camera. An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde arts scene of the 1960s, featuring many of Mekas' friends of that period, including Andy Warhol, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and The Velvet Underground, Walden is also a home movie, an earnest an...
Sheroes
Chantal Birman, a liberal midwife and feminist, has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. At nearly seventy years old, she still provides care and advice to women who have just given birth. From painful moments to intensely joyful experiences, witnessing her visits provides unique insight into the delicate moment of going home. Through the portrait of this committed woman, Aude Pépin ...
Histoires d'entrejambes
"You will give birth in pain." Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
Duration: 3h18Subscription access
Feature documentary on writer Malcolm Lowry. In the grip of his demons, nightmares and fantasies, obsessed by the suicide of one of his friends, Lowry lived a long alcoholic agony. This did not prevent him from delivering to the world pages that place him among the greatest writers of the 20th century. People who knew him well tell of the underworld journey of this man, whose soul was wandering...
Another Road Home
Shortly after the Six-Day War in 1967, Danae's Jewish parents, renowned author Amos Elon and former literary agent Beth Elon, hired Musa Obeidallah, a Palestinian father of eleven, to look after their only six-month-old daughter on a daily basis. He would remain there for 20 years, until Danae left to study in the United States. After losing touch with each other, not least because of growing p...
Scrapbook
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In the sixties, Jeffrey Paull gave a group of young people with autism the opportunity to film themselves and the world around them. Mike Hoolboom draws from this archive to continue Paull’s mission: to express the emotions of people who are condemned by the authorities and by other people’s perceptions, to live in silence. Donna Washington, a former patient, comments on the images and reports ...
Summer Nights
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As night falls on the outskirts of Montreal, the shrill sound of scooters pierces the silence. Helly and Nathan roam the streets in search of the best skateboarding spots, dreaming of the most beautiful tricks.
The Pinochet case
Subscription access
On Thuesday September 22 1998, General Augusto Pinochet flew to London on a pleasure trip. He rested for a few days. He had tea with Margaret Thatcher. He had every back pain and underwent an operation in a London clinic. Upon waking from surgery, he was arrested by the police. Who was responsible for this?
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Francis Bacon, peintre anglais
Duration: 22 minutesPapers, photographs, sketches, tubes of paint and canvases litter Francis Bacon's London studio. It's a place where friends, lovers and eccentric figures pass through, haunting his canvases after a mysterious creative alchemy. Bacon explains in French his carnal relationship with his canvases, the painters who inspire him, and his relationship with alcohol, violence and death. He talks about hi...
La cabale des oursins
The “urchins” in question are slag heaps, the vast mounds formed by the waste from former mines. The "cabal" is launched by Moullet himself, considering the contempt in which these mountains of waste removed from the subsoil by generations of miners are held. He undertakes their ascent, review and praise, leading us - with rigour and humour - to love them.
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
La vie est immense et pleine de dangers
Duration: 1h20Cedric is eight years old. One day, he has stomach pains. During the following six months, he will mostly live in a small unit for children suffering from cancer, on the fifth floor of the Institut Curie in Paris. His words and the story intertwine with those of Steve, Dolores and the other children. Cedric will lead us each time a bit further, through all the trials that he'll face until his r...
The Family of the Forest
Subscription access
Gérard and Catherine left Belgium to live self-sufficiently in the boreal forest of Gaspésie, Quebec. Fifteen years later, as their three boys have grown up, what will become of this way of life?
The Wind at My Door
Subscription access
This feature documentary offers an intimate portrait of living with bipolar disorder. Filmmaker Pierre Goupil (_Celui qui voit les heures, La vérité est un mensonge_) reveals his uneasy relationship with his illness and his journey as an artist in a society that struggles to accept those on the fringe. A product of the 1960s intellectual scene, Goupil continues to question the world and fight f...
The Hamlet Syndrome
The film depicts the young Ukrainian generation marked by war and political fractures since 2014. The starting point of the film is the preparation of a play based on the motifs of Shakespeare's _Hamlet_. A portrait of a generation confronted with the trauma of war and a painful past, similar to its present and future after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lake of Fire
The fear of death can only be conquered if people believe in a powerful saviour - otherwise eternal damnation in hell is waiting. The collage documentary _Lake of Fire_ shows that the dualistic view and way of life of those believers additionally fuel the climate change related "hell on earth" in a dangerous way.
