Experimental
Films that break conventions and invent themselves new forms in order to tell the world differently. Films that will change your perspective and open the window on unexplored possibilities, transforming reality by inventing new points of view by which we can contemplate it.
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Le récit d’A
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_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
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
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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...
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...
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.
Naked Reality
An experimental afrofuturist fable centered on Wanita, a mysterious young woman embarking on a journey of discovery that could save humanity. Set 150 years in the future, Africa has become a unique, sprawling metropolis controlled by a race of immortal beings, filled with ordinary mortals dying from a disease called "Bad Luck". Blending fiction and documentary, Bekolo tackles themes such as cul...
Dust Away
After working on major cleaning projects in New York, immigrants share their experiences. Their voices traverse dreamscapes, reflecting on the American dream, the reality of being undocumented individuals, the dangers of this labor, and the dust that still lingers in their lungs decades later.
C’est une bonne journée
A short, deconstructed story about depression and the mental health of a woman who drinks.
At State's End!
On March 27, 2021, Godspeed You! Black Emperor invited fans to a virtual album event, officially presenting its concert film projections for the first time in the band’s 25-year history. GY!BE filmmakers/projectionists Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard set up their six 16 mm analog projectors in an empty Cinema Imperial, in Montréal, spooling dozens of film loops and short reels for a hallmark ...
Du côté des petites filles
Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.
Magie blanche
_Magie blanche_ recounts moments in a young girl's day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th... This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50' reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.
Mynarski Death Plummet
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Andrew Mynarski, Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero. _Mynarski Death Plummet_ is a psyche- delic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
Notes from Eremocene
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Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
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.
Western Sunburn
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Animal Macula
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Ida's Dream
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Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
Le récit d’A
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_Le récit d'A_ weaves multiple narratives within a single video, parallel worlds that echo one another without ever intersecting. Esther Valiquette incorporates autobiographical fragments, blending animation and medical imagery to reflect on a broader trace: that of a generation devastated by AIDS, and her own life, stripped of its youth. The video also explores the act of seeing, a shifting aw...
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...
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...
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.
Naked Reality
An experimental afrofuturist fable centered on Wanita, a mysterious young woman embarking on a journey of discovery that could save humanity. Set 150 years in the future, Africa has become a unique, sprawling metropolis controlled by a race of immortal beings, filled with ordinary mortals dying from a disease called "Bad Luck". Blending fiction and documentary, Bekolo tackles themes such as cul...
Dust Away
After working on major cleaning projects in New York, immigrants share their experiences. Their voices traverse dreamscapes, reflecting on the American dream, the reality of being undocumented individuals, the dangers of this labor, and the dust that still lingers in their lungs decades later.
C’est une bonne journée
A short, deconstructed story about depression and the mental health of a woman who drinks.
At State's End!
On March 27, 2021, Godspeed You! Black Emperor invited fans to a virtual album event, officially presenting its concert film projections for the first time in the band’s 25-year history. GY!BE filmmakers/projectionists Karl Lemieux and Philippe Leonard set up their six 16 mm analog projectors in an empty Cinema Imperial, in Montréal, spooling dozens of film loops and short reels for a hallmark ...
Du côté des petites filles
Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.
Magie blanche
_Magie blanche_ recounts moments in a young girl's day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th... This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50' reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.
Mynarski Death Plummet
A completely hand-made historical micro-epic about the final minutes in the life of Andrew Mynarski, Winnipeg’s doomed Second World War hero. _Mynarski Death Plummet_ is a psyche- delic photo-chemical war picture on the theme of self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish.
Notes from Eremocene
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Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
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.
Western Sunburn
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Animal Macula
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Ida's Dream
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Accompanied by several sound recorders, the musician Ida Toninato plays the baritone saxophone in reverberated places: the members of this musical and cinematographic group walk in sound, in space, in time. This film with few images and a lot of sounds shares these concrete and fantasized listening, from the ship's hold to the cathedral to a huge concrete building. The use of a quality listenin...
