Hubert Caron-Guay
Hubert Caron-Guay lives in Montreal, where he works as an artist, filmmaker, scriptwriter and producer. After studying film at UQAM, he was an active participant in the collective Épopée from 2010 to 2015, during which time he developed several documentary and fiction-based projects that have been exhibited widely in Canada and abroad (The State of the Moment, The State of Things, The State of the World). Through a “Recherche et création expérimentale” residency with PRIM in 2016, Caron-Guay developed the feature documentary Destierros and the installation Arroyos, recently exhibited at the Dazibao art center. In 2021, he co-directed Ressources with Serge-Olivier Rondeau.
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Destierros
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, migrants head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road...
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Destierros
Border mechanisms that act on migrants are many. Moving from shelter to shelter and hopping on trains, migrants head up north across Mexico to reach the United States and Canada. During the U.S election, migrants are more than aware that it could be their last chance to cross the border. Following their trajectory, Destierros draws a path of reclusion. A path where time remains the longest road...
