Naomie Décarie-Daigneault

A Losing Game

_A Losing Game_ follows three people who ran for office in Quebec’s October 2022 provincial election. The one thing they had in common? They were all sure to lose. Through their individual campaigns, the film pulls back the curtain on our electoral system and the many ways in which it is dysfunctional: the additional barriers faced by women and racialized people, deficiencies in the voting proc...

À hauteur d'homme

_À hauteur d'homme (At the Height of a Man)_ is a cinematic chronicle of the final weeks of Bernard Landry’s administration. Strategy meetings, closed-door sessions, cabinet meetings… This documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the world of Quebec’s 28th premier and unprecedented access to his final election campaign. A contemporary allegory of the exercise of power, directed by Jean-Claud...

Surfing on Grace

David follows, over the course of five years, his brother Louis – a slalom skateboarding champion –through his evolution as an athlete. With an introspective approach, he tries to find common features in both their paths and stumbles upon the concept of grace. It thus forces Louis to ponder upon philosophical questions, while David finds himself trapped in the reflective process he started. The...

Out-Takes From the Life of a Happy Man

"A motion picture composed of brief diaristic scenes not used in completed films from the years 1960-2000; and self-referential video footage taped during the editing. Brief glimpses of family, friends, girl-friends, the City, seasons of the year, travels. Occasionally I talk, reminisce, or play music I taped during those earlier years, plus more recent piano improvisations by Auguste Varkalis....

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

Jonas Mekas, a pioneer of the film diary, portrays his friend Andy Warhol and his inner circle from the early 1960s to the late 1980s, offering an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s life and career.

Jazz of Lights

A pulsating city symphony of light, movement, and electronic music, transforming Times Square in the 1950s into what Hugo’s wife, the writer Anaïs Nin, called "an ephemeral flow of sensations.”

Lloyd Wong, Unfinished

In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a work based on his experiences living with AIDS in Toronto, but he died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing it. For three decades, his work-in-progress was considered "long-lost" until it resurfaced at The ArQuives. In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi Chan combines Lloyd Wong's footage with fragments of her research notes to ref...

Living Here

_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.

And Yet We're Not Super Heroes

When we are a child, there is this fragile moment when the border between the imaginary and the reality is shattered. Here is the testimony of these children between two worlds, to whom the floor has been freely given.

Before Fall

On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.

Meeting with Robert Dole

This experimental short film gives the floor to Robert Dole who gives us his story and exposes his vision of schizophrenia. The theme of mental illness is echoed here in a cinematographic treatment that explores the materiality of film and magnetic tapes to find points of meeting and detachment, spaces resonating with the fall and redemption of Robert Dole. 

On the Adamant

The Adamant is a unique day care centre : it is a floating structure. Located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space, and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it is one of those that try to resist the deterioration and dehumanization of psychiatry as best it can. T...