RIDM's programming
The Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (RIDM) is one of the most significant documentary film festivals in North America, offering audiences the very best of non-fiction cinema by bringing together both renowned filmmakers and emerging voices.
This year, in partnership with the RIDM, Tënk invites you to (re)discover the work of Louise Bourque, a true pioneer of experimental cinema, celebrated in this edition of the festival
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Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
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_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
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The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
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_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
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An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
No Story Here
_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
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...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog attempts to reconstruct his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the Syrian construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred. Venturing further, the filmmaker contacts his estranged father to ask about the Argentinian passport...
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Shafie Abad is a village of the Iranian desert, submitted for centuries to traditional laws, frozen in time. But one day, a group a woman seizes cameras and gather in a collective. In their impulse, they decided to fund a weaver’s cooperative. The beginning of an emancipatory adventure, where the change of social condition involves a sight revolution.
Overseas
Aux Philippines, on déploie les femmes en masse à l’étranger comme aides ménagères ou nounous. Elles laissent souvent derrière elles leurs propres enfants, avant de se jeter dans l’inconnu. Dans un centre de formation au travail domestique, comme tant d’autres aux Philippines, un groupe de candidates au départ se préparent au mal du pays et aux maltraitances qui pourraient les atteindre. Lors d...
Mutts
Les pelages bruns, beiges, blancs et noirs se fondent à l’ocre de la terre et des murs inondés de soleil. Calme à l’heure du repos, l’endroit devient assourdissant quand vient le moment de nourrir les bêtes qui entament alors leur concert d’aboiements. Dans le refuge pour chiens errants d’Agadir au Maroc, plus de 750 animaux trouvent aide et protection en attendant d’être adoptés par une famill...
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
Janvier 2016. L'histoire amoureuse qui m'avait amené dans le village d'Alsace où je vis est terminée depuis six mois. À 45 ans, je me retrouve désormais seul, sans voiture, sans emploi ni réelle perspective d'avenir, en plein cœur d'une nature luxuriante dont la proximité ne suffit pas à apaiser le désarroi profond dans lequel je suis plongé. La France, encore sous le choc des attentats de nove...
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum
New product!Duration: 13 minutes
Subscription access
_Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum_ is a first person autobiographical experimental film exploring the ramifications of the devastating breakup of a romantic relationship. A triptych of self-portraits — entire camera rolls, each subjected to different methods of intervention with the celluloid itself — are intercut with short excerpts of altered footage from a B movie trailer and punctu...
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
L'éclat du mal / The Bleeding Heart of It
New product!Duration: 8 minutes
Subscription access
The house that bursts; the scene of the crime; the nucleus. A universe collapses on itself: all hell breaks loose.
Jours en fleurs
Duration: 5 minutes
Subscription access
_Jours en fleurs_ is a reclamation of flower-power that celebrates both the fertile and the fierce forces of nature, reinventing their relationship to the feminine. Images of flowering trees soaked in menstrual blood for several months undergo a gestation of decay, whose visceral ravages give rise to a beauty that is at once dark and luminous, endowing them with the Baudelairean “formless and m...
Jolicoeur Touriste
Duration: 11 minutes
Subscription access
An enclosed space, a struggle against the constraints of personal isolation explored through a fractured narrative. A man living in a broken-down rented room in a Tourist Inn travels through his drunkenness, his memories and his fantasies, transcending the limits of time and space which suddenly intertwine. A film about loss and absence.
No Story Here
_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
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...
Il passo
Gabriele is thirteen and has a strong will to prove himself. He chooses to spend the summer in the mountains to look after cattle and returns home a new person. Dotted with feats of strength and unexpected moments of tenderness, _Il passo_ is an unusual coming-to-age story, set in a world bound to disappear.
FREM
As the climate crisis becomes increasingly urgent, and artificial intelligence expands exponentially, _FREM_ presents a striking and sometimes uncomfortable reaction to the current wave of post-humanist, anthropocentric thinking. A unique and wildly experimental documentary, Viera Čákanyová’s film provides a haunting and futurist portrayal of one of the most beautiful yet extreme landscapes on ...
I Wanna Sleep with You
_I Want to Sleep with You_ is a private film, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance, in which five couples lay themselves bare to share their most intimate experiences, to tell what love is today, what variations it offers and what compromises it imposes to overcome the risk of loneliness.
Alda
Mrs O. suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Her story is told by combining documentary footage with her own filmed diaries, which she shoots using a portable digital camera. With this device, she records instructions for various activities in her daily life, memories, thoughts and comments, trying to preserve them from being forgotten in her memoryless future. Through the individual story of a gra...
White on White
_White on White_ is director Viera Čákanyová’s video diary that she kept while staying at the Polish Antarctic station, where in 2017 she shot the film _FREM,_ whose main character was an artificial neural network. During her stay, the author chats with various artificial intelligences, leading conversations that touch on the nature of film, art, and the meaning of life while also revealing a w...
Room for a Man
A young gay filmmaker who shares a Beirut apartment with his mother and pet dog attempts to reconstruct his identity by renovating his bedroom. But as the Syrian construction workers come and go in the freshly embattled household, new questions, old arguments and unexpected passions get stirred. Venturing further, the filmmaker contacts his estranged father to ask about the Argentinian passport...
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Woman of the Sun: A Chronology of Seeing
Shafie Abad is a village of the Iranian desert, submitted for centuries to traditional laws, frozen in time. But one day, a group a woman seizes cameras and gather in a collective. In their impulse, they decided to fund a weaver’s cooperative. The beginning of an emancipatory adventure, where the change of social condition involves a sight revolution.
Overseas
Aux Philippines, on déploie les femmes en masse à l’étranger comme aides ménagères ou nounous. Elles laissent souvent derrière elles leurs propres enfants, avant de se jeter dans l’inconnu. Dans un centre de formation au travail domestique, comme tant d’autres aux Philippines, un groupe de candidates au départ se préparent au mal du pays et aux maltraitances qui pourraient les atteindre. Lors d...
Mutts
Les pelages bruns, beiges, blancs et noirs se fondent à l’ocre de la terre et des murs inondés de soleil. Calme à l’heure du repos, l’endroit devient assourdissant quand vient le moment de nourrir les bêtes qui entament alors leur concert d’aboiements. Dans le refuge pour chiens errants d’Agadir au Maroc, plus de 750 animaux trouvent aide et protection en attendant d’être adoptés par une famill...
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
Janvier 2016. L'histoire amoureuse qui m'avait amené dans le village d'Alsace où je vis est terminée depuis six mois. À 45 ans, je me retrouve désormais seul, sans voiture, sans emploi ni réelle perspective d'avenir, en plein cœur d'une nature luxuriante dont la proximité ne suffit pas à apaiser le désarroi profond dans lequel je suis plongé. La France, encore sous le choc des attentats de nove...
