Fly, Fly Sadness

"In *Fly, Fly Sadness*, Miryam Charles focuses on a fantastical dispossession of language. An island, victim of a spell, subjects its inhabitants to inner dissolution: they all begin to speak with the same voice. And a Finnish journalist who has come to investigate is subjected to the same fate: ""I speak like them. And them, like me. From then on, it is the entire island that, ""by starting to speak with the same voice"" swallows the Other and reverses the colonizer / colonized relationship. And from the union of these identical voices rises a song of hope, which calls for the next step; the one where each one will find his or her voice.

If a people's liberation inevitably passes through the question of language, individual liberation cannot do without it. Miryam Charles delivers a song of power in this short film; she traces a unique path in Quebec cinema through an experimental fiction that appropriates the elements of cinematographic language to break down its usual grammar. And we all know deep down how hard it is not to give in to the laziness of existing with the words of others. Charles gives us a little of his courage."

Naomie Décarie-Daigneault
Tënk Artistic Director