Celebrating Life
Films that shift our perspective and invite us to experience the richness and diversity of living beings.
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Eastern Anthems
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An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
7 Walks with Mark Brown
Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
Archeology of Light
_Archeology of Light_ invites us into the heart of Minganie's landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer's gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun's reflection on the restl...
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Duration: 3h28Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
The Tree of Authenticity
In the heart of a Congolese equatorial forest, the remnants of a research center dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal the weight of the colonial past and its inextricable ties to climate change. This three-part essay offers a powerful analysis of Belgium’s colonial history and its enduring consequences today.
Geographies of Solitude
_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Pupa's Garden
_Pupa's Garden_ is an intimate and touching portrait of Ida Emma Lonati Frati, known by everyone as Nonna Pupa. In the early 80s, Nonna Pupa cleaned up an illegal garbage dump and turned it into a beautiful botanical garden for her community in Cernobbio on Lake Como, Italy. Balancing her days between caring for her daughter struck by Multiple Sclerosis and creating this magical garden, Nonna P...
Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
The Velvet Queen
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
Peacock’s Monologues
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Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Tiger's Dialog
Price: CAD$3.00
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
People of a Feather
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, _People of a Feather_ takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is jux...
Eastern Anthems
Subscription access
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialogue between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X (periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States), invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings ...
7 Walks with Mark Brown
Following the English botanist Mark Brown through the landscapes of the Normandy coast, Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré explore the world of plants and flowers in seven walks. The documentary unfolds in two stages, from the filmed journal to the resulting cinematic herbarium.
Vivant parmi les vivants
Following in the footsteps of a Przewalski's mare, a city dog, and two philosophers (Baptiste Morizot and Vinciane Despret), this is a fascinating reflection on our relationship with other living beings which, by reversing the perspective, raises new questions about our place in the world.
Archeology of Light
_Archeology of Light_ invites us into the heart of Minganie's landscapes in Quebec. A place surrounded by countless presences. Everything there is perception. Every perception emerges from the interplay between the observer's gaze and the living world: the trees, the moss carpeting the forest floor, the water winding through rocks, light filtered by the canopy, the sun's reflection on the restl...
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Toroboro: The Name of the Plants
Duration: 3h28Twenty-five years after a renowned ethno-botanical study in the Ecuadorian Amazon region inhabited by the Waorani, the central figures involved reunite. Members of the community talk about the genocidal colonization of their people since the arrival of Christian missionaries. The main threats to their survival are now the oil and timber industries.
The Tree of Authenticity
In the heart of a Congolese equatorial forest, the remnants of a research center dedicated to tropical agriculture reveal the weight of the colonial past and its inextricable ties to climate change. This three-part essay offers a powerful analysis of Belgium’s colonial history and its enduring consequences today.
Geographies of Solitude
_Geographies of Solitude_ is an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Shot on 16mm and created using a scope of innovative eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, this feature-length experimental documentary is a playful and reverent col...
Pupa's Garden
_Pupa's Garden_ is an intimate and touching portrait of Ida Emma Lonati Frati, known by everyone as Nonna Pupa. In the early 80s, Nonna Pupa cleaned up an illegal garbage dump and turned it into a beautiful botanical garden for her community in Cernobbio on Lake Como, Italy. Balancing her days between caring for her daughter struck by Multiple Sclerosis and creating this magical garden, Nonna P...
Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
The Velvet Queen
In the heart of the high Tibetan plateaux, among unexplored and inaccessible valleys, lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, home to rare and unknown species of fauna. Photographer Vincent Munier takes writer and adventurer Sylvain Tesson on a quest to catch a glimpse of the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach. Over a period of several weeks, he ...
Composing Worlds
From where can we rethink our world to transform it? Philippe Descola has devoted his life as an anthropologist to studying how humans compose their worlds; starting in the Amazon, he turned his field of research towards Europe, in order to understand how we, the moderns, could have made the earth less and less habitable. The film takes him to embody his ideas, in dialogue with the non-humans a...
Peacock’s Monologues
Subscription access
Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Tiger's Dialog
Price: CAD$3.00
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
People of a Feather
Featuring stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, _People of a Feather_ takes you through time into the world of the Inuit on the Belcher Islands in Canada's Hudson Bay. Connecting past, present and future is a unique relationship with the eider duck. Eider down, the warmest feather in the world, allows both Inuit and bird to survive harsh Arctic winters. Traditional life is jux...
