Denis Côté
Denis Côté was born in 1973 in New-Brunswick. He founded Nihilproductions in the 90's and shot multiple short films. He was a journalist and cinema critic before he directed his first feature film Drifting States in 2005. He made Our Privates Lives in 2007 and then Curling in 2010, which was awarded at the Locarno Film Festival and shown in more than seventy festivals worldwide. More recently, he directed Wilcox, an essay on liberty and wandering without dialogue, and Social Hygiene, a radical and offbeat comedy, shot in the middle of the pandemic. His films, marked with strong formal research and a sharp spirit of independence, have beens shown in dozens of cinematographic events.
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Renegade breakdown Live
Envisioned as a laboratory experiment, the freeform concert was shot and directed by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Côté, who captured Marie Davidson and her new band L’Œil Nu’s first-ever performance.
A Skin so Soft
Denis Côté enters the world of bodybuilding and takes a benevolent gaze at these men with oversized bodies. Men of few words and of many muscles. They are bodybuilders, wrestlers or trainers and share the same passion for the extreme development of their biceps. A foray into the hyper-controlled routines of these modern-day gladiators that captures their entire human dimension.
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En silence, cinq jeunes dessinent à main levée une biche empaillée. En plein hiver québécois, un zoo et des animaux sauvages. Des lamas, bisons, zébus, girafes, poneys, singes, autruches, ratons laveurs et autres tigres. Scrutant l'horizon ou paissant paisiblement, ces animaux à la fois familiers et étranges établissent un rapport avec nous à travers l'objectif d'une caméra fixée sur eux. Da...
Carcasses
Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident, he took an early retirement and has been collecting cars, wrecks, and junk for the last 40 years. Living among tons and tons of debris, he quietly works all day on his unthinkable belongings, furnishing and dealing car parts to mechanics and other iron afficionados. One day, four intruders visit Colmor in search of a corner of twisted paradi...
Renegade breakdown Live
Envisioned as a laboratory experiment, the freeform concert was shot and directed by Quebecois filmmaker Denis Côté, who captured Marie Davidson and her new band L’Œil Nu’s first-ever performance.
A Skin so Soft
Denis Côté enters the world of bodybuilding and takes a benevolent gaze at these men with oversized bodies. Men of few words and of many muscles. They are bodybuilders, wrestlers or trainers and share the same passion for the extreme development of their biceps. A foray into the hyper-controlled routines of these modern-day gladiators that captures their entire human dimension.
Bestiaire
En silence, cinq jeunes dessinent à main levée une biche empaillée. En plein hiver québécois, un zoo et des animaux sauvages. Des lamas, bisons, zébus, girafes, poneys, singes, autruches, ratons laveurs et autres tigres. Scrutant l'horizon ou paissant paisiblement, ces animaux à la fois familiers et étranges établissent un rapport avec nous à travers l'objectif d'une caméra fixée sur eux. Da...
Carcasses
Jean-Paul Colmor is 74 years old. After an accident, he took an early retirement and has been collecting cars, wrecks, and junk for the last 40 years. Living among tons and tons of debris, he quietly works all day on his unthinkable belongings, furnishing and dealing car parts to mechanics and other iron afficionados. One day, four intruders visit Colmor in search of a corner of twisted paradi...
