Arts
A selection of films on art that shakes up preconceived ideas. It extends the pleasure of contemplation or enhances the experience of a piece. By juxtaposing mythical films and recent ones, we offer the sharpest views on the world of art … in all its forms.
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A Man Leaning
Duration: 3h14
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A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
CBQM
Duration: 2h12
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The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
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A unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As filmmaker Carol Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."
Camera Trap
Duration: 52 minutes
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The Porcupine Caribou herd, one of the largest in North America, faces an uncertain future due to climate change, industrial development, and political tensions. The Gwich'in people, who have relied on the herd for generations, see their future at risk and call for global attention. Peter Mather, a teacher and aspiring photographer, began his career in Old Crow, where he became passionate about...
The Rebelious One
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Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Duration: 2h36Subscription access
With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, _Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political_ follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.
Where the Trains Used to Go
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A magical journey along the remains of a narrow-gauge railway in southeastern Norway. Using a specially developed animation technique and filmed on large-format film, the movie takes us swiftly along the tracks of the _Tertitten_, which used to be a sideline to the main railway between Oslo and Stockholm.
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...
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Duration: 2h26Subscription access
In Japan's Himuro Valley, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived forever in a hermitage, surrounded by animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako gathers plants to transform into pigments, while Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature appears unchanging. Yet time crackles, and reality eventually catches up with them...
The King is Not My Cousin
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In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
Everything Lives
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Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
I AM A FILM
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Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
To Hell With Culture
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Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
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.
Somehow Continue
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Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of _Creation Destruction_, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With a keen eye for detail, Karl Lemieux captures the rehearsals and offers a glimpse into the neighborhood hosting the event.
The Seven Last Words
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_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Dear Director
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In 1980, American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watched Ingmar Bergman’s _From the Life of the Marionettes_. Afterwards, she wrote a sixteen-page letter to Bergman, explaining how the film had changed her life. _Dear Director_ is based on this real fan letter, which Swedish director Marcus Lindeen discovered while researching unfinished Bergman scripts for a play.
UWD
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A poetic crossover in a ruined world where each person survives alone amid collective disarray. Bodies in motion, dance and physical prowess, replace words, embodying and revealing bruised characters haunted by a past that feels sweeter than this crumbling world.
A Man Leaning
Duration: 3h14
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A major poet of the late 20th century, Thierry Metz (1956-1997) worked as a laborer or seasonal worker in the Lot-et-Garonne region. He transformed each stage of his life into poetic material. The film sheds light on the tragic intensity of his brief existence and the radical nature of his artistic commitment.
The Rebelious One
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
CBQM
Duration: 2h12
Subscription access
The radio station CBQM operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwic...
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer
New product!Duration: 51 minutes
Subscription access
A unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As filmmaker Carol Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."
Camera Trap
Duration: 52 minutes
Subscription access
The Porcupine Caribou herd, one of the largest in North America, faces an uncertain future due to climate change, industrial development, and political tensions. The Gwich'in people, who have relied on the herd for generations, see their future at risk and call for global attention. Peter Mather, a teacher and aspiring photographer, began his career in Old Crow, where he became passionate about...
The Rebelious One
Subscription access
Half-fiction and half-documentary, _The Rebelious One_ is both a personal interpretation and a poetical rendition of Marie-Claire Blais' work that follows the Quebec writer's literary journey through eleven of her novels. Like a continuous thread leading us through the discovery of her writings, the voice, the vision and the keen consciousness of Blais recall the social events and the human dra...
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Duration: 2h36Subscription access
With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, _Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political_ follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.
Where the Trains Used to Go
Subscription access
A magical journey along the remains of a narrow-gauge railway in southeastern Norway. Using a specially developed animation technique and filmed on large-format film, the movie takes us swiftly along the tracks of the _Tertitten_, which used to be a sideline to the main railway between Oslo and Stockholm.
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...
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Akeji, the Breath of the Mountain
Duration: 2h26Subscription access
In Japan's Himuro Valley, Akeji and Asako seem to have lived forever in a hermitage, surrounded by animals and the spirits of nature. Season after season, Asako gathers plants to transform into pigments, while Akeji prays and devotes himself to painting. The cycle of nature appears unchanging. Yet time crackles, and reality eventually catches up with them...
The King is Not My Cousin
Subscription access
In 2017, author Elzéa Foule Aventurin engaged in a series of interviews with her granddaughter. Together, they retrace, not without mischief, a family history sailing from one end of the Black Atlantic to the other. A story of silence, pride and revolt.
Everything Lives
Subscription access
Part observation, part performance, and a collaboration between father and son, _Everything Lives_ looks at how Ken experiences time in the barns where he works; the time he spends playing, the time unique to painting or the time it takes to build a whole life. This short 16mm film is an intimate series of surfaces, sounds and events that together form their subject: the artist as father.
I AM A FILM
Subscription access
Shot on location at the Low Four studio in Manchester, this film features poet Stephen Watts reciting his poem _I AM A FILM_, a coda to _The Liberated Film Club_ by Stanley Schtinter. Accompanied by the filmmaker who films him in a way that merges his presence with the recitation, the process unfolds through the use of analog material, close-ups of his face and expressions, and the grain of hi...
To Hell With Culture
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Co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an influential art critic, poet and committed anarchist. In his 1943 essay, _To Hell with Culture_, Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, separated from society, but an integral part of everyday life. In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in...
NYC RGB
Subscription access
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.
Somehow Continue
Subscription access
Shot on 16mm film, this piece creatively portrays the making of _Creation Destruction_, a multidisciplinary outdoor performance by choreographer Dana Gingras set to music by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor. With a keen eye for detail, Karl Lemieux captures the rehearsals and offers a glimpse into the neighborhood hosting the event.
The Seven Last Words
Subscription access
_The Seven Last Words_ sounds out experiential states and rituals particular to humanity, based on the seven themes expressed in a musical composition: forgiveness, salvation, relationship, abandonment, distress, triumph, and reunion. Seven award-winning Canadian filmmakers of diverse origins and art practices explore a wealth of human experience and feeling, based on the seven phrases at the o...
Dear Director
Subscription access
In 1980, American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watched Ingmar Bergman’s _From the Life of the Marionettes_. Afterwards, she wrote a sixteen-page letter to Bergman, explaining how the film had changed her life. _Dear Director_ is based on this real fan letter, which Swedish director Marcus Lindeen discovered while researching unfinished Bergman scripts for a play.
UWD
Subscription access
A poetic crossover in a ruined world where each person survives alone amid collective disarray. Bodies in motion, dance and physical prowess, replace words, embodying and revealing bruised characters haunted by a past that feels sweeter than this crumbling world.
