Layovers
Sometimes, it is worthwhile to get off the path and stopover in order to dig deeper and reflect. Once every two months, we call upon individuals whose thoughts, approaches, and methods we admire to select five films around a subject of their choice. You want to participate? Feel free to contact us at info@tenk.ca
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Baisanos
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Through an intimate portrayal of the activities of the Club Deportivo Palestino fan group, _Baisanos_ builds a dialogue between two narrators representing Chile and Palestine. Together, they reflect on identity, the meaning of returning to Palestine, and the different ways of going back. In this way, the connection between two distant territories emerges within a space of celebration, where dre...
Volleyball
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A playful film about volleyball, shot in October 1965 during a match in Montreal between the U.S. and Soviet Olympic teams.
Regards sur le sport : Edgar Morin
Regards sur le sport : Edgar Morin
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Sport is like a point in a hologram that contains within itself the whole of society. Yet it also possesses its own singularity, which lies in the nature of play. Edgar Morin, a sports enthusiast and particularly passionate about football, offers in this filmed interview his sociological perspective on the complexity of sport. By approaching it as a “total social phenomenon,” a concept central ...
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
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An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open.
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer
Duration: 13 minutesSubscription access
_The First Indigenous Female Pornographer_ centers on Audrey Little-breast, a native woman whose life and work defies categorization. During a candid interview, she unravels the mysterious settler desire and sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This mockumentary blends and bends archival foota...
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
Duration: 2h58Subscription access
In the wake of the Syrian revolution, Bashar al-Assad’s regime laid siege to the Yarmouk neighborhood in Damascus, the world’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. Yarmouk found itself isolated, and the filmmaker documents the daily hardships while paying tribute to the courage of the children and residents of the neighborhood.
The Algerian Novel
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_The Algerian Novel_ is a film devised in three chapters that offers a sensitive explanation of a nation’s complex relations with its history and the role of images in the construction of its national novel and archetypes.
499
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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Pioneer Species
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In a community garden in Nanterre, inhabitants gather weekly around a pioneer tree species (empress tree, _pawlawnia tomentosa_) that will one day be planted in the future metro stations of the Grand Paris. Through these gatherings, they learn how plants respond to soil, water and urban conditions, while collectively imagining what their neighborhood could become. The film finds its counterpoin...
Before Their Eyes
A couple moves into a tower on an island and spends each day observing the small creatures living on the foreshore and in the grass. By reversing scales and perspectives the film establishes a strange relationship between the observers and the observed. While small living beings try to express their fragility in the face of intrusive exploration, what anxieties do humans experience?
Animus femina
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Four women in close contact with wildlife explore our relationship with living beings through repair, reflection, art and "living-with". Four exceptional journeys that invite us to decenter our human gaze and rethink our ways of inhabiting the world in a time of climate crisis.
Life Through The Lens
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_Life Through The Lens_ invites us to meet some of passionate individuals of biodiversity in France who contributed to Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film _Vibrant_ in 2023. Whether professional or amateur naturalists, budding or seasoned videographers, they share with us their life experiences and the little secrets that have enabled them to become intimate witnesses to a natural world as beautiful as...
Now, Please Think About Yesterday
Now, Please Think About Yesterday
Duration: 44 minutesHow are the questions about happiness designed and used as key tools to evaluate the quality of our life? The desire to shift how we read and interpret our socio-economic moment and the space we inhabit in light of emotional and behavioural parameters is evident at the political level. The Gallup World Poll, one of the foremost companies specializing in public opinion polls, is the source of th...
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Duration: 1h40This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent the passage of buses, the...
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Duration: 1h00The video assembly _Untitled (The Things Around Us)_ presents a heterogeneous scenario of constituent elements—environments, conditions, objects, and figures—that play a distinct role in the conceptual processes and design methods of the Brussels-based architecture and urbanism agency 51N4E and the research agency Rural Urban Framework (RUF). Formulated as a catalogue of “things,” in the philos...
To Build Law
_To Build Law_ follows Berlin-based architectural studio bplus.xyz (b+) as they establish a policy lab, HouseEurope!, to propose industry reforms and shift cultural norms. The film closely observes the b+ team during various phases of conceptualization and development of a European Citizens’ Initiative meant to incentivize renovation over demolition and new construction. Through this bottom-up ...
Here and There
At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Clotheslines
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_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
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Ten years ago, lanaire aderemi’s grandmother told her about the Egba Women’s Revolt, a resistance movement against colonial taxation in the late 1940s in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Inspired by this story, lanaire explores archival documents, historical sites and oral testimonies to document the imaginative and revolutionary spirit of Abeokuta women in the 1940s.
Baisanos
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Through an intimate portrayal of the activities of the Club Deportivo Palestino fan group, _Baisanos_ builds a dialogue between two narrators representing Chile and Palestine. Together, they reflect on identity, the meaning of returning to Palestine, and the different ways of going back. In this way, the connection between two distant territories emerges within a space of celebration, where dre...
Volleyball
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A playful film about volleyball, shot in October 1965 during a match in Montreal between the U.S. and Soviet Olympic teams.
Regards sur le sport : Edgar Morin
Regards sur le sport : Edgar Morin
New product!Subscription access
Sport is like a point in a hologram that contains within itself the whole of society. Yet it also possesses its own singularity, which lies in the nature of play. Edgar Morin, a sports enthusiast and particularly passionate about football, offers in this filmed interview his sociological perspective on the complexity of sport. By approaching it as a “total social phenomenon,” a concept central ...
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
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An immersive film essay on tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career as the world champion, documenting his strive for perfection, frustrations, and the hardest loss of his career at the 1984 Roland-Garros French Open.
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer
The First Indigenous Female Pornographer
Duration: 13 minutesSubscription access
_The First Indigenous Female Pornographer_ centers on Audrey Little-breast, a native woman whose life and work defies categorization. During a candid interview, she unravels the mysterious settler desire and sexual appetite for “imaginary Indians” that guided her pornographic work in the 1970s and contemplates its impact on Indigenous sexuality. This mockumentary blends and bends archival foota...
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege
Duration: 2h58Subscription access
In the wake of the Syrian revolution, Bashar al-Assad’s regime laid siege to the Yarmouk neighborhood in Damascus, the world’s largest Palestinian refugee camp. Yarmouk found itself isolated, and the filmmaker documents the daily hardships while paying tribute to the courage of the children and residents of the neighborhood.
The Algerian Novel
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_The Algerian Novel_ is a film devised in three chapters that offers a sensitive explanation of a nation’s complex relations with its history and the role of images in the construction of its national novel and archetypes.
499
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To reflect on the 500-year anniversary of the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 2021, director Reyes offers a bold hybrid cinema experience exploring the brutal legacy of colonialism in contemporary Mexico. Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, the film recreates Hérnan Cortés' epic journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of contemporary Mexico City....
Pioneer Species
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In a community garden in Nanterre, inhabitants gather weekly around a pioneer tree species (empress tree, _pawlawnia tomentosa_) that will one day be planted in the future metro stations of the Grand Paris. Through these gatherings, they learn how plants respond to soil, water and urban conditions, while collectively imagining what their neighborhood could become. The film finds its counterpoin...
Before Their Eyes
A couple moves into a tower on an island and spends each day observing the small creatures living on the foreshore and in the grass. By reversing scales and perspectives the film establishes a strange relationship between the observers and the observed. While small living beings try to express their fragility in the face of intrusive exploration, what anxieties do humans experience?
Animus femina
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Four women in close contact with wildlife explore our relationship with living beings through repair, reflection, art and "living-with". Four exceptional journeys that invite us to decenter our human gaze and rethink our ways of inhabiting the world in a time of climate crisis.
Life Through The Lens
Subscription access
_Life Through The Lens_ invites us to meet some of passionate individuals of biodiversity in France who contributed to Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film _Vibrant_ in 2023. Whether professional or amateur naturalists, budding or seasoned videographers, they share with us their life experiences and the little secrets that have enabled them to become intimate witnesses to a natural world as beautiful as...
Now, Please Think About Yesterday
Now, Please Think About Yesterday
Duration: 44 minutesHow are the questions about happiness designed and used as key tools to evaluate the quality of our life? The desire to shift how we read and interpret our socio-economic moment and the space we inhabit in light of emotional and behavioural parameters is evident at the political level. The Gallup World Poll, one of the foremost companies specializing in public opinion polls, is the source of th...
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Misleading Innocence (Tracing What a Bridge Can Do)
Duration: 1h40This film, conceived by Francesco Garutti and directed by Shahab Mihandoust, explores the controversial story of the planning and politics of a series of overpasses that span the parkways of Long Island, New York. These bridges were commissioned in the 1920s and 1930s by the public administrator Robert Moses. The story suggests that the bridges were designed to prevent the passage of buses, the...
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Untitled (The Things Around Us)
Duration: 1h00The video assembly _Untitled (The Things Around Us)_ presents a heterogeneous scenario of constituent elements—environments, conditions, objects, and figures—that play a distinct role in the conceptual processes and design methods of the Brussels-based architecture and urbanism agency 51N4E and the research agency Rural Urban Framework (RUF). Formulated as a catalogue of “things,” in the philos...
To Build Law
_To Build Law_ follows Berlin-based architectural studio bplus.xyz (b+) as they establish a policy lab, HouseEurope!, to propose industry reforms and shift cultural norms. The film closely observes the b+ team during various phases of conceptualization and development of a European Citizens’ Initiative meant to incentivize renovation over demolition and new construction. Through this bottom-up ...
Here and There
At the beginning of the summer of their 16th year, Adam, Ana, and Dahlia turn to their families and friends to question their cultural heritage. Through intimate conversations, _Here and There_ juxtaposes the different influences and realities that shape the development of the cultural identities of second and third-generation immigrants.
Clotheslines
Subscription access
_Clotheslines_ poetically documents the pragmatic, symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women's lives. The film presents an enduring, vivid account, showing how the creative energies of women have been sapped by mundane tasks, and in turn how such tasks reflect a ritualistic approach to life.
record found here
Ten years ago, lanaire aderemi’s grandmother told her about the Egba Women’s Revolt, a resistance movement against colonial taxation in the late 1940s in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Inspired by this story, lanaire explores archival documents, historical sites and oral testimonies to document the imaginative and revolutionary spirit of Abeokuta women in the 1940s.
