Émilie Serri
Émilie Serri is a filmmaker, artist, and curator of Belgian-Syrian origin based in Montreal. Her recent work explores the performative potential of archives and the cinematic spaces that allow them to be activated. After graduating in journalism and then in film from Concordia University, she recently completed a master's degree in visual and media arts at UQAM. Distributed by the experimental film company Light Cone in Paris, her films have been showcased at numerous festivals both nationally and internationally. More recently, her video installations have been exhibited in galleries across Quebec and Canada. In 2018, she won the prestigious Bronfman Fellowship in contemporary art and the Talents to Watch grant from Telefilm Canada for the production of her first feature film in development. Damascus Dream is her first feature-length documentary.
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Damascus Dreams
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
No Time for Tomorrow
How can someone be part of a filiation in the absence of direct references to its own culture? How to identify with a history, through experiences, memories or images of another. No Time for Tomorrow addresses these issues through the notions of otherness, disappearance and memory in interaction with history - both intimate and collective - and their possible projection into both documentary ...
Damascus Dreams
How does one remember a homeland they are so deeply connected to and disconnected from? When Canadian-born filmmaker Emilie Serri travels to Syria for the first time in ten years, she feels alienated. A year later, when her grandmother dies and the war begins, she tries to piece back together an image of this elusive country she desperately wants to call her own. Gathering evidence from the pas...
No Time for Tomorrow
How can someone be part of a filiation in the absence of direct references to its own culture? How to identify with a history, through experiences, memories or images of another. No Time for Tomorrow addresses these issues through the notions of otherness, disappearance and memory in interaction with history - both intimate and collective - and their possible projection into both documentary ...
