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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After the Odyssey
Duration: 2h50
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After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Le Métif enragé
Duration: 36 minutes
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A film that reveals the vitality, colour, talent and fury in Western Canada’s oldest and largest French city: St. Boniface. In a devilish mood, local poet George Morrissette uses a hometown fiddle competition to recite a poem about Franco-Manitobans and the Métis French. The audience turns against him and we witness a dramatic confrontation.
Cattle Call
Duration: 8 minutes
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_Cattle Call_ is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques, filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctio...
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Duration: 2h44
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Robert Frank revolutionised photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
Mexico Will No Longer Exist
Duration: 1h20
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A frenetic gaze sweeps over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of multiracialism and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present intertwine in a flurry of images—fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap with intimacy, complicity, and tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine our complex rel...
Femmes écrivains
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Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Subscription accessBased on never-before-seen archives, this film written and directed by the photographer's granddaughter paints an intimate portrait of the man and the artist who joyfully intertwined his family and professional life to build an exemplary body of work. _Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens_ tells the story of how this child from the Parisian suburbs became one of the world's most famous photographers.
Museum Hours
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Subscription access_Leaning into the Wind_ follows Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates...
No Ordinary Man
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In _No Ordinary Man_, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legac...
A Short History Of Madness
\_A Short History Of Madness\_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losi...
My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
Primas
\_Primas\_ is an evocative portrait of two cousins, Rocío and Aldana, Argentinian teenagers who, in the wake of heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods, will free themselves from the shadows of their past. Travelling in Argentina and Montréal, the girls come of age having revelatory experiences in their everyday lives; learning dance, mime, theatre, circus and visual arts. ...
Impetus
Une cinéaste en plein tournage à New York se questionne sur l'origine de l’impulsion. Alors que son acteur principal quitte le tournage, elle devra faire preuve d’ingéniosité afin de mener à terme son projet. Entre fiction et documentaire, New York et Montréal, \_Impetus\_ est une réflexion sur la création et la remise en mouvement. Mariant l'essai poétique et l'autofiction, c'est aussi un film...
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
Imaginary Tales
\*Des histoires inventées\*, c’est un long métrage documentaire qui se dépeint en un portrait d’auteur sur et avec André Forcier. C’est l’histoire d’un cinéaste d’exception et incontournable dans le paysage et un pilier au sein de l’identité propre de notre cinéma national. C’est l’occasion unique de revisiter l’ensemble de ses œuvres, reconnues comme étant fortement teintées de \_réalisme magi...
The Sower
En plein cœur des méandres du Kamouraska au Québec, Patrice Fortier vit dans La société des plantes où il préserve minutieusement, tel un copiste du Moyen Âge, les semences végétales rares ou oubliées pour en faire des variétés « anciennes du futur ». Patrice jardine en rêvant et transforme ses récoltes en projets artistiques. Au fil des saisons, par la patience de ses gestes, il nous transmet ...
Finding Vivian Maier
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
After the Odyssey
Duration: 2h50
Subscription access
After a Dantean journey, women from Nigeria arrive alone and ever younger in Italy, looking for a better life. Such horrors as human trafficking and sexual slavery are waiting for them, as we discover in this ensemble film, featuring harrowing stories told in a sensible way that spares us from the unbearable. These tales provoke a broader reflection on migration and otherness.
Le Métif enragé
Duration: 36 minutes
Subscription access
A film that reveals the vitality, colour, talent and fury in Western Canada’s oldest and largest French city: St. Boniface. In a devilish mood, local poet George Morrissette uses a hometown fiddle competition to recite a poem about Franco-Manitobans and the Métis French. The audience turns against him and we witness a dramatic confrontation.
Cattle Call
Duration: 8 minutes
Subscription access
_Cattle Call_ is a high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering. Structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowler, and using a variety of classic and avant-garde animation techniques, filmmakers Maryniuk and Rankin have tried to create images as dazzlingly abstract, absurd and adrenalizing as the incredible language of auctio...
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Duration: 2h44
Subscription access
Robert Frank revolutionised photography and independent film. He documented the Beats, Welsh coal miners, Peruvian Indians, The Stones, London bankers, and the Americans. This is the bumpy ride, revealed with unblinking honesty by the reclusive artist himself.
Mexico Will No Longer Exist
Duration: 1h20
Subscription access
A frenetic gaze sweeps over a convulsed Mexico City, a colossal metropolis sustained by the myth of multiracialism and other colonial forms of violence. Past and present intertwine in a flurry of images—fragmented memories of this land. Ancient deities are incarnated, while dreams overlap with intimacy, complicity, and tumult. This is an erratic film that invites us to reimagine our complex rel...
Femmes écrivains
Subscription access
Françoise Sagan, Clara Malraux, Henriette Jelinek, and Françoise Mallet-Joris share their vision of literature and discuss the reasons that drive them to write.
Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens
Subscription accessBased on never-before-seen archives, this film written and directed by the photographer's granddaughter paints an intimate portrait of the man and the artist who joyfully intertwined his family and professional life to build an exemplary body of work. _Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens_ tells the story of how this child from the Parisian suburbs became one of the world's most famous photographers.
Museum Hours
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world.
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy
Subscription access_Leaning into the Wind_ follows Andy Goldsworthy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates...
No Ordinary Man
For decades, the life of American Jazz musician Billy Tipton was framed as the story of an ambitious woman passing as a man in pursuit of a music career. In _No Ordinary Man_, Tipton’s story is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero. Together, the filmmakers join Tipton’s son Billy Jr. to reckon with a complicated and contested legac...
A Short History Of Madness
\_A Short History Of Madness\_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losi...
My Father's Studio
In November 2001, Quebec Painter Edmund Alleyn (1931-2004) agreed to be filmed in his Montreal studio by his daughter, filmmaker Jennifer Alleyn. There, something unexpected happened : an authentic encounter, with no beating around the bush, no mask. From a few existential questions –about life, painting, death- thruth emerged. The artist died of cancer in December 2004 before Jennifer could fi...
Primas
\_Primas\_ is an evocative portrait of two cousins, Rocío and Aldana, Argentinian teenagers who, in the wake of heinous acts of violence that interrupted their childhoods, will free themselves from the shadows of their past. Travelling in Argentina and Montréal, the girls come of age having revelatory experiences in their everyday lives; learning dance, mime, theatre, circus and visual arts. ...
Impetus
Une cinéaste en plein tournage à New York se questionne sur l'origine de l’impulsion. Alors que son acteur principal quitte le tournage, elle devra faire preuve d’ingéniosité afin de mener à terme son projet. Entre fiction et documentaire, New York et Montréal, \_Impetus\_ est une réflexion sur la création et la remise en mouvement. Mariant l'essai poétique et l'autofiction, c'est aussi un film...
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
Imaginary Tales
\*Des histoires inventées\*, c’est un long métrage documentaire qui se dépeint en un portrait d’auteur sur et avec André Forcier. C’est l’histoire d’un cinéaste d’exception et incontournable dans le paysage et un pilier au sein de l’identité propre de notre cinéma national. C’est l’occasion unique de revisiter l’ensemble de ses œuvres, reconnues comme étant fortement teintées de \_réalisme magi...
The Sower
En plein cœur des méandres du Kamouraska au Québec, Patrice Fortier vit dans La société des plantes où il préserve minutieusement, tel un copiste du Moyen Âge, les semences végétales rares ou oubliées pour en faire des variétés « anciennes du futur ». Patrice jardine en rêvant et transforme ses récoltes en projets artistiques. Au fil des saisons, par la patience de ses gestes, il nous transmet ...
Finding Vivian Maier
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
