Online cinema
Écologie Sonore
Alexandra Guité
Web Documentary on the fascinating world of sound, noise and silence as seen by captivating people in intimate portraits. Rich interactive visual and audio experience of four soundscapes : the city, the countryside, the suburbs and the silence of monastic spaces. From the journey of the blind Nathalie who guides herself mostly with the help of sounds to the mysteries of silence chambers and the racket of snowmobiles, passionate and touching people guide us throughout the complex world of sound.
Les Arts de la Résistance
Alexandra Guité
Argentina’s troubled history, culminating in the major crisis of 2001, has seen the rise of a wave of original artistic and cultural expression. The documentary The Art of Resistance introduces us to several creators and artist collectives who use artistic expression as a means to deliver powerful social statements, explore unbridled creativity, and participate actively in constructing a new reality. The Art of Resistance is an inventive treatment of these artists’ responses to the critical situations they are living. Born in a climate of urgency, their creativity knows no boundaries.
L’île
Alexandra Guité
The descendants of the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island, brutally expropriated in 1971, set on a quest to explore their origins. Stirring encounter with its last survivor, 91 year old Louis Brochet.
Five Billion Years
Joyce Borenstein
This superbly animated science film traces the evolution of North America from the Earth’s geophysical beginnings, through the genesis of the first living organisms, right up to the arrival of humans. Radiant colors and smooth-flowing animation evoke sizzling lava rivers, oceans bursting with life, and freezing ice ages. The film provides an excellent view of the time frame within which these remarkable events took place and highlights the fact that, relatively speaking, we are newcomers to Planet Earth.
Lida Moser Photographer: Odyssey in Black and White
Joyce Borenstein
Lida Moser (1920-2014) the hero of this animated documentary, was a New York photographer who travelled throughout Quebec during the summer of 1950, on assignment to Vogue and Look Magazines. Filmmaker Joyce Borenstein recorded Moser remembering her journey sixty years later. Moser took over one thousand photos of a society and place that was on the cusp of modernization. Lida Moser’s artistic vision inspired Borenstein to create this auteur documentary which interweaves animation and time lapse shooting with the photos.
Mother’s colours
Joyce Borenstein
Judith, an artist, moves into a senior’s residence, and she feels lonely and alienated. She is unable to sleep and discovers that she can escape into her painting. Her neighbour Greg, notices her diving into her landscape and follows after her. They embark on a magical voyage flying through Fauvist landscapes.
One Divided by Two: Kids and Divorce
Joyce Borenstein
Danny’s parents’ divorce sparked nightmares of being abandoned by his mom. Adrianne was relieved because her parents stopped fighting. Lauren felt guilty, thinking she may have caused her parents’ separation. Jeffrey wished his parents could get back together. Annie was angry that her step-dad imposed so many household rules. One Divided By Two focuses on 13 young people (aged 8 to 18) whose parents have divorced. The video brings an original approach to the subject: animation takes over where live footage stops, moving beyond it – describing the heightened feelings, hopes and memories.
Colours of my Father: a Portrait of Sam Borenstein
Joyce Borenstein
With great singleness of purpose, Sam Borenstein painted for over 40 years. Despite his obvious talent it was only near the end of his life that his work began to be known. Twenty years after the artist’s death, animation filmmaker Joyce Borenstein brings her father’s work to a wider audience. Using various animation techniques in this documentary, she skillfully and harmoniously integrates archival material, filmed sequences, the painting themselves, and reminiscences of friends and family, to bring Sam Borenstein’s work to life.
La Plante
Joyce Borenstein
This short fiction has much to say about kindness, although without any dialogue. In a combination of live action and animation, we are introduced to a man who discovers a small plant hidden under the snow and takes it inside his house. The plant responds to his loving care with rather startling enthusiasm.
Le camp des 4 “sans”
Isabelle Hayeur
Ève Lamont
Des membres du FRAPRU (Le Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain) montent un camp sous la pluie, à Québec, où ils resteront durant trois jours, pour tenter de rencontrer Jean Charest et faire entendre leurs revendications.
Je suis le futur de votre mémoire
Hejer Charf
«De mémoire de rose, il n’y a qu’un jardinier au monde.» (Bernard de Fontenelle) Nos identités plongent dans le passé, s’abreuvent du présent et forment notre futur.
Le viol d’Iman Al-Obeidi
Hejer Charf
Iman Al-Obeidi a été violée par 15 hommes de Kadhafi. Elle a eu le courage de dénoncer le tyran et ses milices qui utilisent le viol des femmes comme arme de guerre.