Fragments
Movies from the great names of documentary cinema, from its origins to more recent productions. An exploration of the variety of writings, styles and approaches, through the masterpieces of renowned filmmakers… or more obscure ones.
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No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
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...
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
This Is No Time for Romance
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In the midst of summer pleasures and her children's play, a young woman questions the meaning of her life as a wife and mother, and her chances of happiness. Filmed in the 1960s, this film starring Monique Mercure and Marc Favreau depicts the "female condition" from various perspectives.
An Ecology of Hope
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A portrait of Pierre Dansereau, a renowned Quebecois professor, scientist, humanist, and ecologist celebrated globally for his groundbreaking research on ecosystems. This film takes us on a global journey, exploring diverse landscapes from Baffin Island and Gaspésie to Brazil and the metropolis of New York.
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Duration: 1h55Subscription access
A Quebec family scattered across the big city reunites in the countryside, in Sainte-Théodosie, and discusses the importance of love, life-which-is-worth-being-lived, the need for freedom and society-which-is-badly-made.
Saint-Jérôme
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This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation to...
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Duration: 34 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Jean Eustache reconstructed an evening among friends — of which he was a witness a few years ago — during which a fan of Jérôme Bosch, the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq, engaged in a very personal commentary on the painting _The Garden of Earthly Delights_.
Odette Robert
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In 1971, Jean Eustache had the idea to film his grandmother, Odette Robert. She recounts her life to him: her unhappy youth, her early marriage to a womanizing man, the tragic deaths of her parents and children... A poignant testimony of the life of a woman from the early 20th century, between cigarettes and whisky.
Du côté des petites filles
Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.
Still Pina
A tribute to German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and a nod to Chantal Akerman's film, _One Day Pina Asked_, the short _Still Pina_ evokes in its own way a well-known scene from a Pina Bausch choreography, incorporating sign language, and reveals the extent to which the body is a carrier of images and sounds. A film produced as part of a commission for works by IFCO.
The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship
The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship
Duration: 10 minutesFrom St. John's Newfoundland, a woman leaves messages on the voice mail of a mysterious woman named Sabrina... _The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship_ was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose main rule is to shoot a single 50-foot reel, with no post-editing. The theme for 2008 was "Revenge".
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.
Dorothy's Shoes
_Dorothy's Shoes_ uses the epistolary mode to reveal the intimate utopia of a woman who invents several characters for herself. Jacqueline Demers, then Karol Baker and finally Kirick, come to life and span the ages through Dorothy's imagination. Produced as part of Correspondances d'Eastman, in 2005.
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.
No Story Here
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_No Story Here_, the first film by Jeannine Gagné, co-directed with Michel Lamothe, offers a striking portrait of working-class Montréal in the 1970s. Created without a script and using just 600 feet of film, this student short freely blends images and sounds, the latter serving as echoes of the popular psyche, already foreshadowing _City Dawn_.
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...
For You, Lord, For You
Around an austere brick altar lost in the middle of the desert like a drifting raft, the Panchwa festival (Rajasthan, India) is a gateway to the beyond, a celebration during which Kalbeliya gypsies converse with their dead. While they come to celebrate the King of Panchwa, their hero buried here, the festival is also a privileged moment for the Kalbeliya imagination to unfold. Goddesses and war...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
We Don't Care About Music Anyway...
Duration: 2h40While featuring key figures from Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene of the mid-2000s, _We Don’t Care About Music Anyway..._ offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the megacity, juxtaposing music with noise, sound with imagery, representation with reality, and fiction with documentary. Beyond the music and performances, the film explores the future and modes of existence of an entire city and society.
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens
Duration: 1h52Since Antiquity, the Sonepur fair in the Indian state of Bihar has been the largest animal market in Asia. Mobilizing all the showmen of this state renowned for its indomitability, it is the place of expression par excellence for Bihari popular culture. The characters in _Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens_ are the custodians of this culture. Like the different figures in a tarot deck, they ar...
This Is No Time for Romance
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In the midst of summer pleasures and her children's play, a young woman questions the meaning of her life as a wife and mother, and her chances of happiness. Filmed in the 1960s, this film starring Monique Mercure and Marc Favreau depicts the "female condition" from various perspectives.
An Ecology of Hope
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A portrait of Pierre Dansereau, a renowned Quebecois professor, scientist, humanist, and ecologist celebrated globally for his groundbreaking research on ecosystems. This film takes us on a global journey, exploring diverse landscapes from Baffin Island and Gaspésie to Brazil and the metropolis of New York.
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Tout le temps, tout le temps, tout le temps... ?
Duration: 1h55Subscription access
A Quebec family scattered across the big city reunites in the countryside, in Sainte-Théodosie, and discusses the importance of love, life-which-is-worth-being-lived, the need for freedom and society-which-is-badly-made.
Saint-Jérôme
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This socially-driven film explores the impact of technological changes on the city of Saint-Jérôme, which faced a severe socio-economic crisis in the 1960s, mirroring issues in other Quebec cities. Citizens from all social classes come together in a monumental effort to address the crisis. The film serves as both a reflection of this situation and a catalyst for action, acting as a mediation to...
Joseph Samuel Jacques Julien
Jacques is 59 years old and has spent his entire career as a salesman in Quebec City. The past few months have been especially challenging for him: mourning the loss of his wife, he finds it difficult to regain his footing. Should he change his life? Change his identity? Amidst a growing political turmoil, the narrator remains hopeful, insisting that Jacques still has reason to hope.
Idle Times
Beginning in the late 19th century, the history of baseball tells the story of the transformation of pastures and mindsets in North America. Slow and repetitive, the game makes ample room for daydreaming and boasting. Full-bodied and mannered, it evokes the vastness of a new continent while also recalling its British origins. Filmed at the Victoria Stadium in Quebec and developed with the colla...
The Dreamed Ones
In the intimacy of a Viennese studio, two young actors revive the literary scene and atmosphere of the post-war period through their reading of the correspondence between Romanian Jewish poet Paul Celan and Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, daughter of a former National Socialist Party activist.
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Duration: 34 minutesSubscription access
Filmmaker Jean Eustache reconstructed an evening among friends — of which he was a witness a few years ago — during which a fan of Jérôme Bosch, the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq, engaged in a very personal commentary on the painting _The Garden of Earthly Delights_.
Odette Robert
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In 1971, Jean Eustache had the idea to film his grandmother, Odette Robert. She recounts her life to him: her unhappy youth, her early marriage to a womanizing man, the tragic deaths of her parents and children... A poignant testimony of the life of a woman from the early 20th century, between cigarettes and whisky.
Du côté des petites filles
Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.
Still Pina
A tribute to German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and a nod to Chantal Akerman's film, _One Day Pina Asked_, the short _Still Pina_ evokes in its own way a well-known scene from a Pina Bausch choreography, incorporating sign language, and reveals the extent to which the body is a carrier of images and sounds. A film produced as part of a commission for works by IFCO.
The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship
The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship
Duration: 10 minutesFrom St. John's Newfoundland, a woman leaves messages on the voice mail of a mysterious woman named Sabrina... _The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship_ was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose main rule is to shoot a single 50-foot reel, with no post-editing. The theme for 2008 was "Revenge".
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.
Dorothy's Shoes
_Dorothy's Shoes_ uses the epistolary mode to reveal the intimate utopia of a woman who invents several characters for herself. Jacqueline Demers, then Karol Baker and finally Kirick, come to life and span the ages through Dorothy's imagination. Produced as part of Correspondances d'Eastman, in 2005.
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.
