Online cinema
November
Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier
November is a peripatetic experience in search of the many souls who make up the city of Montreal, in that seasonal no man’s land between colorful autumn and pristine winter, well known for its bent toward melancholy. It’s an excursion through the streets of the city with its constant movement and a peek into the alienation of the modern urban world: between work and home, between obligations and dreams. November is the story of those people we meet daily without seeing them, the story of mixed Montreal identities in search of meaning and light.
Émilienne and the Passage of Time
Coralie Lemieux-Sabourin
Émilienne, 76, a former flight attendant, lives on a small farm in the Centre-du-Québec region of Québec. Through the seasons, this keeper of forgotten knowledge introduces us to her symbiotic way of life with both the living and time.
Trouble and Kids
Catherine Pallascio
Two kids find a friendly creature in their backyard and befriend it. They keep it out of harm’s way by teaching the creature about common dangers in and around the house.
Les écoles alternatives d’hier à demain
Catherine Pallascio
On the occasion of the reunion of Les petits castors alternative elementary school, which celebrated its 30th anniversary on June 9, 2007, several former students, teachers and parents talk about their experience and involvement with the alternative school. The aim of this video is to raise awareness of alternative pedagogical schools and the long-term effects they can bring, while demystifying a number of preconceived ideas, of the type encountered by promoters of new alternative schools. The target audience is parents interested in this type of school, regular schools called upon to cohabit with alternative schools, school board commissioners and managers called upon to give their opinion on new school projects of this type, as well as student teachers.
Philosopher sur les mathématiques
Catherine Pallascio
This video illustrates an application of the “Philosophy for Children” approach as adapted to mathematics. We follow two groups of pupils “philosophizing about mathematics”: a 5th grade class from a school in Laval district, and a group of pupils in the 5th and 6th grade from an alternative school in Longueuil, the latter group being in contact via Internet with other groups. Begun in the 1970s in the US by philosophers Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp, the “Philosophy for Children” approach was adapted to mathematics by a team of researchers from CIRADE, consisting of a specialist in Philosophy of Education (Marie-France Daniel of Université de Montréal), specialists in the teaching of mathematics (Louise Lafortune of UQTR and Richard Pallascio of UQÀM), and a ressource person in philosophy (Pierre Sykes). The video allows us to follow the pupils during the various stages of this philosophical approach: reading, questioning, selection of a philosophical question, reflection before and following the community of inquiry, mathematical/philosophical activities, review of the abilities used to think, as well as their exchanges via Internet.
About memory and loss
Amélie Hardy
Capture, document, record, share, restart. We are making ourselves more memorable than ever by archiving every bit of our daily lives. What if we lost something along the way?
Happy Life
Amélie Hardy
In this time of anxiety and turmoil, this film explores the unusual outlets where the torments of the body and mind are soothed. In a meditative journey to the heart of these analgesic places, this documentary essay paints a portrait of a society in search of meaning and comfort.
Train Hopper
Amélie Hardy
A young man travels across America hopping from one freight train to another.
Mazzarello
Carmen Rachiteanu
The inspiring portrait of a female boxer from Argentina, determined to exorcise the demons of past violence in the boxing ring, and her touching relationship with her coach.
Jo
Carmen Rachiteanu
Jo is a janitor at a school in the evening. Woman of convictions, she assumes her “bugs” of the past for the two most important women of her life : her daughter Karine and…Diane Dufresne.
Unfortunately It Was Paradise
Ralitsa Doncheva
Unfortunately It Was Paradise utilizes found footage taken from 1970s Ukrainian documentaries and communist propaganda films. Working with formal, collage-like approaches, the film strips the images away from their political context and meanings. Focusing on daily rituals and repetitive gestures, the project creates a hypnotic and meditative experience. A slow architecture constantly shifting between stasis and motion.
Baba Dana Talks to The Wolves
Ralitsa Doncheva
Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life on a mountain, away from people and cities, in Zelenikovsky Monastery in Bulgaria.