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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Claude Gosselin, témoignage à bâtons rompus
Claude Gosselin, témoignage à bâtons rompus
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This documentary traces the history of _Les Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal_ (1985–1996) and _La_ _Biennale de Montréal_ (1998–2011), two landmark events in Quebec’s art scene. Their founder and executive director, Claude Gosselin, looks back on the origins of these initiatives, which stood out for their unconventional choice of venues. With an international scope, these events gave m...
What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me
What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me
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An industrial psychedelic self-portrait, created with original footage shot in deserted factories on the south side of Chicago, manipulated extensively through optical printing.
Paroles d'oiseaux à Toro Muerto
Paroles d'oiseaux à Toro Muerto
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This video links man's prehistoric traces in nature to the myth of the destruction of humanity. The birds speak about the frailty of the balance between culture and nature. Primitive figures which evoke Peruvian history emerge from Chantal duPont's paintings and take part in actual situations. In his flight, the eagle releases aman, only to eventually become his prisoner. From within a blaze wh...
The 100th Day
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Hungarian-born Canadian artist Istvan Kantor has spent half a century creating a singular and radical body of work in which performance, actionism, and body art challenge the audience’s sensory conventions. In 1993, he took part in the exhibition _Les Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal_, presenting a dual installation that was completely demolished on the hundredth day in a violent and c...
Cozic
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Portrait of the Canadian artist duo Cozic, composed of Monic Brassard and Yvon Cozic. United in life and creation, the couple works with industrial materials in vibrant colors to create ecological and playful artworks. From the carefree hippie years of the 1960s to major public art commissions, their work reflects the evolution of our relationship with nature and the industrial world. Today, fr...
Point and Line to Plane
Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman (Deragh Campbell) attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Amidst travels that are at once internal and external, she searches for traces of her friend as connections uncannily accumulate. Shapes and colours from ac...
The Ones Who Stay
Four young Cuban artists choose to stay in Cuba during what has now become the island's largest migration crisis. _The One Who Stay_ is an intimate portrait of those who stay behind, loosing loved ones and shaping the identity of a generation at risk of fading away.
The Apollo of Gaza
In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found in the waters off Gaza—before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Is it the work of forgers, or a gift from the gods to a Palestinian people desperately in need of hope? Soon the rumours start to swirl, while behind the scenes local and international players start jostling—some driven by historical preservation and others by purely commerc...
Une nef... et ses sorcières
For a year, thirteen authors and actresses teamed up to stage \_La nef des sorcières\_, played at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montréal in 1976. In addition to excerpts from the six monologues on the situations and contradictions experienced by the women, the film presents the comments of the participants in this adventure.
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Letters to the Prime Minister
Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
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.
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Subscription accessHappiness is a tautological state. Why is one happy? Because he or she is happy. It’s very simple. And it smells good. Still happy than one can be happy. This video was produced for Manif d’art 2003 in Québec focussing on happiness and its representation.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté’s work centers on self-representation and narrative, and is often delivered in a humorously faux-naïve and playful aesthetic. In her first video, _Bonbons bijoux_, the artist speaks directly to the camera about simple, trivial things, delivered in a whimsical and spirited manner. In a succession of brief vignettes, the artist, like a candid half-woman, half-child, tells stories...
Her Scream
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
My Memory Walls
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house's walls to transform it into a museum.
People's Park
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A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
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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
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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.”
Claude Gosselin, témoignage à bâtons rompus
Claude Gosselin, témoignage à bâtons rompus
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This documentary traces the history of _Les Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal_ (1985–1996) and _La_ _Biennale de Montréal_ (1998–2011), two landmark events in Quebec’s art scene. Their founder and executive director, Claude Gosselin, looks back on the origins of these initiatives, which stood out for their unconventional choice of venues. With an international scope, these events gave m...
What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me
What Ignites Me, Extinguishes Me
New product!Subscription access
An industrial psychedelic self-portrait, created with original footage shot in deserted factories on the south side of Chicago, manipulated extensively through optical printing.
Paroles d'oiseaux à Toro Muerto
Paroles d'oiseaux à Toro Muerto
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This video links man's prehistoric traces in nature to the myth of the destruction of humanity. The birds speak about the frailty of the balance between culture and nature. Primitive figures which evoke Peruvian history emerge from Chantal duPont's paintings and take part in actual situations. In his flight, the eagle releases aman, only to eventually become his prisoner. From within a blaze wh...
The 100th Day
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Hungarian-born Canadian artist Istvan Kantor has spent half a century creating a singular and radical body of work in which performance, actionism, and body art challenge the audience’s sensory conventions. In 1993, he took part in the exhibition _Les Cent jours d’art contemporain de Montréal_, presenting a dual installation that was completely demolished on the hundredth day in a violent and c...
Cozic
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Portrait of the Canadian artist duo Cozic, composed of Monic Brassard and Yvon Cozic. United in life and creation, the couple works with industrial materials in vibrant colors to create ecological and playful artworks. From the carefree hippie years of the 1960s to major public art commissions, their work reflects the evolution of our relationship with nature and the industrial world. Today, fr...
Point and Line to Plane
Devastated after the death of a friend, a young woman (Deragh Campbell) attempts to extract meaning from this intense loss as she discovers signs in her daily life and through encounters with the art of Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint. Amidst travels that are at once internal and external, she searches for traces of her friend as connections uncannily accumulate. Shapes and colours from ac...
The Ones Who Stay
Four young Cuban artists choose to stay in Cuba during what has now become the island's largest migration crisis. _The One Who Stay_ is an intimate portrait of those who stay behind, loosing loved ones and shaping the identity of a generation at risk of fading away.
The Apollo of Gaza
In 2013, an ancient statue of Apollo was found in the waters off Gaza—before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. Is it the work of forgers, or a gift from the gods to a Palestinian people desperately in need of hope? Soon the rumours start to swirl, while behind the scenes local and international players start jostling—some driven by historical preservation and others by purely commerc...
Une nef... et ses sorcières
For a year, thirteen authors and actresses teamed up to stage \_La nef des sorcières\_, played at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montréal in 1976. In addition to excerpts from the six monologues on the situations and contradictions experienced by the women, the film presents the comments of the participants in this adventure.
Rumba Rules, New Genealogies
Immersing itself in the daily life of one of the great orchestras of the current generation, this film proposes an incursion into the arcanes of a monumental genre of African music. Ya Mayi, Lumumba, Xéna La Guerrière, Pitchou Travolta, Alfred Solo, Soleil Patron and many others: nearly thirty artists feed the creative life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra. By entering the group and the city of...
Letters to the Prime Minister
Montreal author Marie-Célie Agnant collects stories, dreams and demands from Parc-Extension neighbours, in order to write a letter to their deputy, Justin Trudeau, then the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.
Les femmes me touchent
A musical film based on a song by _Les Folles Alliées_, illustrating the unacceptable insults directed at the female body and intellect: sexual harassment, sexist advertisements and music videos, pornography, domestic violence, and rape.
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.
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Subscription accessHappiness is a tautological state. Why is one happy? Because he or she is happy. It’s very simple. And it smells good. Still happy than one can be happy. This video was produced for Manif d’art 2003 in Québec focussing on happiness and its representation.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté’s work centers on self-representation and narrative, and is often delivered in a humorously faux-naïve and playful aesthetic. In her first video, _Bonbons bijoux_, the artist speaks directly to the camera about simple, trivial things, delivered in a whimsical and spirited manner. In a succession of brief vignettes, the artist, like a candid half-woman, half-child, tells stories...
Her Scream
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. She now decides to confront her demons. Supported by her son, the director of the documentary, she revisits a striking scene from her past: the moment when she told her parents that her grandfather had sexually assaulted her. Together, through a year-long production process, they transform ...
My Memory Walls
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house's walls to transform it into a museum.
People's Park
Subscription access
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
Duration: 37 minutesSubscription access
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
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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.”
