Carlos Ferrand
Carlos Ferrand was born in Lima, Peru. From Lima to Brussels, Paris and Vermont, he spent several years wandering about but with film always at the core of his interests. For more than 40 years he has worked as a screenwriter and director and has collaborated as director of photography with about fifty other films, both in fiction and documentary. He lives in Montreal with his family.
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Mecánicos piratas de Lima
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
13, A Ludodrama about Walter Benjamin
13, A Ludodrama about Walter Benjamin
From 1933 until his suicide in 1940, the German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin was on the run from the Nazis and lived in exile in Paris. Combining archival footage, contemporary scenes, animated sequences, and puppetry, this 13-chapter composite essay takes us back to that period in Benjamin’s life, reflecting on the many facets of his work, his world, and hi...
Americano
From Lima to Quebec’s great north, through Patagonia and back up across the Americas, Carlos Ferrand takes us on an extraordinary journey in search of our American identity. Common to all of these countries, the First Nations are an essential part of this quest, thanks to their fundamental cultural influence as well as the revolutionary stand they took in making claims to build a better future....
Jongué, A Nomad's Journey
A film about photographer and writer Serge Emmanuel Jongué. After immigrating to Quebec to escape his family’s shadows, wounds and silences, he spent his brief life exploring his multiple origins. Jongué’s life is told through his own texts, images and talismans, from his birth in Aix-en-Provence until his untimely death in Montreal.
Mecánicos piratas de Lima
Using Super 8 footage shot in the early 70s by Carlos Ferrand who was then the director of photography for Peru's revolutionary military government, _Mecánicos piratas de Lima_ is a profoundly poetic journey into a timeless past, a precious ethnographic work completed more than 45 years after filming, in 2021.
13, A Ludodrama about Walter Benjamin
13, A Ludodrama about Walter Benjamin
From 1933 until his suicide in 1940, the German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin was on the run from the Nazis and lived in exile in Paris. Combining archival footage, contemporary scenes, animated sequences, and puppetry, this 13-chapter composite essay takes us back to that period in Benjamin’s life, reflecting on the many facets of his work, his world, and hi...
Americano
From Lima to Quebec’s great north, through Patagonia and back up across the Americas, Carlos Ferrand takes us on an extraordinary journey in search of our American identity. Common to all of these countries, the First Nations are an essential part of this quest, thanks to their fundamental cultural influence as well as the revolutionary stand they took in making claims to build a better future....
Jongué, A Nomad's Journey
A film about photographer and writer Serge Emmanuel Jongué. After immigrating to Quebec to escape his family’s shadows, wounds and silences, he spent his brief life exploring his multiple origins. Jongué’s life is told through his own texts, images and talismans, from his birth in Aix-en-Provence until his untimely death in Montreal.
