Driven by a curiosity for knowledge, Matthew Wolkow creates cinema that reveals the people he meets and the stories that emerge. Situated between essay and experimentation, rubbing shoulders with reality, imagination, words, music and sensorialities, his work benefits from this hybridity where form is approached as resolution. In October 2021, the Cinémathèque québécoise will dedicate a first retrospective to him.
Montreal... a museum... a garage... Chile... Muchas Cosas Juntas... Plusieurs choses ensemble... Many things together...
"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, _81.92_ is a structuralist inquiry into the notion of presence and absence as it reveals archival radio broadcasts from former Montreal radio host Mike Wolkow. The former (the audible) is left invisible while the later (the visible) seeks to find the missing elements that trace th...
EXT. DAY. MONTREAL / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, a Mediterranean fig tree stands. / Said _Ficus carica_, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin. / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet. / The story of an observation.
Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.
Montreal... a museum... a garage... Chile... Muchas Cosas Juntas... Plusieurs choses ensemble... Many things together...
"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, _81.92_ is a structuralist inquiry into the notion of presence and absence as it reveals archival radio broadcasts from former Montreal radio host Mike Wolkow. The former (the audible) is left invisible while the later (the visible) seeks to find the missing elements that trace th...
EXT. DAY. MONTREAL / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, a Mediterranean fig tree stands. / Said _Ficus carica_, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin. / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet. / The story of an observation.
Halfway between poetry, ornithology and improvised music, this film is an appointment, a meeting of sorts that begins 6000 km apart between Lisbon and Montreal, and foremost a conversation between two neighbours. The very result of a trip to Portugal for one and faraway reminiscences for the other.
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale is a dialog; an encounter between an entomologist, a professional curious, and a tiger, also known as _Papilio canadensis_ or Canadian Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.