Sarah Seené
Sarah Seené is a French photographer and filmmaker based in Montreal whose work is entirely dedicated to 35mm film, Super 8 and Polaroid. After studying literature and cinema, she started to work with analog photography on her own. For several years, she has been developing an imagery focused on portraiture and documentary, characterized by a singular sensitivity and poetry that question the intimate and the human. Her photographs and films have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions internationally. She also works for artists of the Quebec music scene. Her short documentaries have been screened at numerous film festivals, including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Sheffield Doc Fest, the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal and the DOXA Festival. Her film Orbits won the Grand Prix Canadien and the Prix de la Critique Internationale FIPRESCI at the REGARD festival.
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Orbits
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's...
Disappearing Silence
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This self-portrait illustrates the sensory chaos caused by what is called "permanent tinnitus", which belongs to the typology of so-called "phantom" pains, similar to inexhaustible waves of sound that must be tamed in order to define a new state of silence.
Orbits
Marie-Christine, who lost her sight some years ago, explores life in a particularly sensory way—through her fingertips. Through her personal experience, she arouses her son's curiosity and sense of wonder about the beauty of the universe. Drawing from a constellation of highly textured analogue images and a rich tapestry of sound, _Orbits_ journeys into the sensorial depths of Marie-Christine's...
Disappearing Silence
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This self-portrait illustrates the sensory chaos caused by what is called "permanent tinnitus", which belongs to the typology of so-called "phantom" pains, similar to inexhaustible waves of sound that must be tamed in order to define a new state of silence.
