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Después del Silencio
Duration: 28 minutes
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If an abuser’s power lies in the victim’s silence, speaking out is an essential weapon for the victim to break free. After the silence comes the journey toward liberation.
Clémence
Duration: 36 minutes
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This documentary gives voice to the parents and close friends of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry, who was the victim of a femicide in 2016. Through memories and tributes, we dive into the complexity of mourning a loved one who has disappeared in violence. With great sensitivity, we accompany her loved ones as they share with us the importance of talking about her while celebrating her life.
Kilómetro 126
Duration: 32 minutes
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_Kilómetro 126_ narrates the day of a young couple as they spent their last time together in their hometown. Focusing on small intimate and mundane moments of their lives while juxtaposing it with archival footage contrasting the settlement of a town with its future, questioning the notion of development and progress in these rural areas.
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
Relics of Love and War
Duration: 40 minutes
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Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, narrates the story of how his mother married his father while he was training with other Chinese Canadian veteran volunteers for the top secret suicide mission: Operation Oblivion. This incredible story is set against the backdrop of the Second World War, a time when Chinese Canadians could not vote, swim in pools, or hire white women for their businesses...
Slet 1988
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Duration: 2h04Subscription access
The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Duration: 1h39Subscription access
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
Duration: 2h34Subscription access
Robert Roussil, a leading figure in Quebec sculpture, left a profound mark on art history with his bold creations and his unwavering commitment to freedom of expression. Yet since his passing in 2013, his legacy seems to be fading into oblivion. _R. Roussil, From the Ground Up_ seeks to rekindle the memory of this visionary artist by delving into his work and philosophy. Built around a rich ass...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Meeting Meat Joy
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Based on a deep, clumsy and humorous Skype encounter between French researcher Chlo Lavalette and legendary artist Carolee Schneemann, this evocative experimental essay explores whether – and at what costs – spectators should help artworks escape the intentionality of their authors and the zeitgeist in which they were made, and questions the contemporary affordances of a certain feminist legacy.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
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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...
The Rose Family
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In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
Light Plays
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
Nine Easy Dances
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
The Kettle
In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
Y'a qu'à pas baiser !
This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
The Trial
Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
They Do Not Exist
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Life in the Nabatieh refugee camp in Southern Lebanon, accompanied by a voice-over reading a letter written to a _fedayeen_ (Palestinian fighter). A response to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who declared that the Palestinian people did not exist.
Después del Silencio
Duration: 28 minutes
Subscription access
If an abuser’s power lies in the victim’s silence, speaking out is an essential weapon for the victim to break free. After the silence comes the journey toward liberation.
Clémence
Duration: 36 minutes
Subscription access
This documentary gives voice to the parents and close friends of Clémence Beaulieu-Patry, who was the victim of a femicide in 2016. Through memories and tributes, we dive into the complexity of mourning a loved one who has disappeared in violence. With great sensitivity, we accompany her loved ones as they share with us the importance of talking about her while celebrating her life.
Kilómetro 126
Duration: 32 minutes
Subscription access
_Kilómetro 126_ narrates the day of a young couple as they spent their last time together in their hometown. Focusing on small intimate and mundane moments of their lives while juxtaposing it with archival footage contrasting the settlement of a town with its future, questioning the notion of development and progress in these rural areas.
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
Relics of Love and War
Duration: 40 minutes
Subscription access
Chinese Canadian filmmaker, Keith Lock, narrates the story of how his mother married his father while he was training with other Chinese Canadian veteran volunteers for the top secret suicide mission: Operation Oblivion. This incredible story is set against the backdrop of the Second World War, a time when Chinese Canadians could not vote, swim in pools, or hire white women for their businesses...
Slet 1988
Subscription access
In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Duration: 2h04Subscription access
The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Duration: 1h39Subscription access
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
Duration: 2h34Subscription access
Robert Roussil, a leading figure in Quebec sculpture, left a profound mark on art history with his bold creations and his unwavering commitment to freedom of expression. Yet since his passing in 2013, his legacy seems to be fading into oblivion. _R. Roussil, From the Ground Up_ seeks to rekindle the memory of this visionary artist by delving into his work and philosophy. Built around a rich ass...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
Meeting Meat Joy
Subscription access
Based on a deep, clumsy and humorous Skype encounter between French researcher Chlo Lavalette and legendary artist Carolee Schneemann, this evocative experimental essay explores whether – and at what costs – spectators should help artworks escape the intentionality of their authors and the zeitgeist in which they were made, and questions the contemporary affordances of a certain feminist legacy.
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
Subscription access
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...
The Rose Family
Subscription access
In October 1970, members of the Front de libération du Québec kidnapped minister Pierre Laporte, unleashing an unprecedented crisis in Quebec. Fifty years later, Félix Rose tries to understand what led his father and uncle to commit these acts. The result of ten years of research, _The Rose Family_ brings to life moments and figures that were previously known only through a few photographs, and...
Light Plays
Old footage from 16mm film is scratched, drawn upon, and experimentally animated with a quantum dots solution. The film seems at first about sound, the moon, and exotic birds, but it is more about narration, experimentation, and playfulness.
Nine Easy Dances
A filmmaker and former dancer returns to her family home to make a film with her parents, but when they fail to live up to unrealistic expectations, and when her mother's cancer metastasizes, she hires professional dancers to play them, in what becomes a darkly humorous docufiction about both loss and transformation.
The Kettle
In a letter to her attacker, a young woman describes all the harm she would, in turn, inflict on him. Authenticity and violence reverse the victim-culprit relationship.
Y'a qu'à pas baiser !
This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
The Trial
Following the collapse of the Argentinian dictatorship, the new democratically elected government held a judicial trial of nine high-ranking representatives of the military Junta. The accused were prosecuted with crimes that included kidnapping, torture, forced disappearance, and the murder of over 8000 thousand people from 1976-1983. The trial was recorded for broadcast television on over 500 ...
They Do Not Exist
Subscription access
Life in the Nabatieh refugee camp in Southern Lebanon, accompanied by a voice-over reading a letter written to a _fedayeen_ (Palestinian fighter). A response to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who declared that the Palestinian people did not exist.
