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The Shape of Things
Duration: 20 minutes
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A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
Bloody Mess
Duration: 9 minutes
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When filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. But it turned out she had fibroids. _Bloody Mess_ is a short, personal, animated documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by actor Susan Kent) on their harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.
The Little Ancestor
Duration: 22 minutes
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On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
Duration: 46 minutes
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April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
Duration: 44 minutes
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
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The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
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97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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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 ...
Rojek
Duration: 4h14
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_Rojek_ encounters incarcerated members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) through their personal stories. These conversations are...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
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Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
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Robert Roussil, a leading figure in Quebec sculpture, left a profound mark on art history with his bold creations and his unwavering commitment to freedom of expression. Yet since his passing in 2013, his legacy seems to be fading into oblivion. _R. Roussil, From the Ground Up_ seeks to rekindle the memory of this visionary artist by delving into his work and philosophy. Built around a rich ass...
Fait vivir
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This poetic documentary follows the Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, a multicultural troupe of musicians and circus artists based in Montreal. Narrated by Manuk, a 5-year-old boy, the film chronicles their tour of Colombia, bringing the show Makondo to areas marked by armed conflict. Between the present and the past, homeland and adopted land, brother and sister, a film emerges as a balm for nostalgia a...
Crab Trap
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At La Barra, an isolated and humid village on the pacific Coast of Colombia, Cerebro, leader of the native Afro Colombian Community, is at odds with the White Man, a landowner who wants to build a resort on the beach. Daniel, a strange man with city looks and manners, arrives in the place, looking for a boat to leave the country. Daniel, forced to leave, has to be part in the struggle of this v...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
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
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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 minutesSubscription access
How 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...
The Shape of Things
Duration: 20 minutes
Subscription access
A spectacular film shot during the first sculpture symposium held in North America, in Montreal in the summer of 1964, _The Shape of Things_ follows eleven sculptors from nine countries as they hammer, carve, and shape stone.
Bloody Mess
Duration: 9 minutes
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When filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. But it turned out she had fibroids. _Bloody Mess_ is a short, personal, animated documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by actor Susan Kent) on their harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.
The Little Ancestor
Duration: 22 minutes
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On a windswept hill, in a place still young and devoid of all life, an ancestral house builds itself. The house comes to life and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time, the transformations of its surroundings, and its vulnerability in the face of the unstoppable frenzy of our urban growth. The house evolves quietly in the h...
Ibuka, Justice
Duration: 46 minutes
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April 6, 1994. A day like any other has turned into an apocalypse for the Rwandan people. In Kigali, Valentine and Jean-Claude, a new couple of young parents, face the threat of a mass hecatomb over their entire country. With the help of several people, they will multiply their attempts to escape from their region with their baby. _Ibuka, Justice_ is an animated, poetic rendering of the crucial...
Slet 1988
Duration: 44 minutes
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In _Slet 1988_, dancer Sonja Vukićević, aged 74, moves through socialist-modernist spaces; her body is an archive of the last mass performance in Yugoslavia. Her gestures echo past rhythms and present realities, intertwining with a 1988 teenage girl’s diary to reveal the shift from socialist collectivism to rising individualism, while a new national collective body is creeping in and will soon ...
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
Yugoslavia: How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body
New product!Duration: 2h04
Subscription access
The film deals with the question of how ideology performs itself in public space through mass performances. The author collected and analyzed film and video footage from the period of Yugoslavia (1945 – 2000), focusing on state performances (youth work actions, May Day parades, celebrations of the Youth Day, etc.) as well as counter-demonstrations (’68, student and civic demonstrations in the ‘90...
Landscapes of Resistance
Duration: 3h10
Subscription access
97-year-old antifascist fighter Sonja was one of the first female Yugoslav Partisans and a member of the resistance in Auschwitz. By listening to Sonja’s stories, we travel through the landscapes of her revolutionary past, as her memories start to intertwine with the filmmakers’ own confrontation with the rising fascism in Europe today.
Eastern Anthems
Duration: 2h34
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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 ...
Rojek
Duration: 4h14
Subscription access
_Rojek_ encounters incarcerated members of the Islamic State from all over the world, as well as their wives detained in prison-camps, who are sharing a common dream: establishing a caliphate. Confronted with the fundamentalist beliefs of the jihadists, the film attempts to trace the beginning, the rise and fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) through their personal stories. These conversations are...
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
Sept-Îles ’72 : Archives du monde ordinaire
New product!Duration: 1h39
Subscription access
Following the arrest of the leaders of the Inter-Union Common Front (Front commun intersyndical) during the general strike of spring 1972 in Quebec, workers and activists in Sept-Îles spontaneously occupied the city. Through the testimonies of a handful of activist friends and archival footage, this film recounts the reasons behind the uprising, the sequence of events during the occupation—whic...
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
R. Roussil, From the Ground Up
New product!Duration: 2h34
Subscription access
Robert Roussil, a leading figure in Quebec sculpture, left a profound mark on art history with his bold creations and his unwavering commitment to freedom of expression. Yet since his passing in 2013, his legacy seems to be fading into oblivion. _R. Roussil, From the Ground Up_ seeks to rekindle the memory of this visionary artist by delving into his work and philosophy. Built around a rich ass...
Fait vivir
Subscription access
This poetic documentary follows the Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra, a multicultural troupe of musicians and circus artists based in Montreal. Narrated by Manuk, a 5-year-old boy, the film chronicles their tour of Colombia, bringing the show Makondo to areas marked by armed conflict. Between the present and the past, homeland and adopted land, brother and sister, a film emerges as a balm for nostalgia a...
Crab Trap
Subscription access
At La Barra, an isolated and humid village on the pacific Coast of Colombia, Cerebro, leader of the native Afro Colombian Community, is at odds with the White Man, a landowner who wants to build a resort on the beach. Daniel, a strange man with city looks and manners, arrives in the place, looking for a boat to leave the country. Daniel, forced to leave, has to be part in the struggle of this v...
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain
Duration: 30 minutesSubscription access
Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.
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
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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 minutesSubscription access
How 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...
