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Waiting Is Irrelevant When Time Is Non-Linear
Gina Haraszti
Time has played a intriguing part in the existence of this film, beyond its topic and title. Dormant for 6 years on a forgotten harddrive, not even the filmmaker Gina Hara remembered its existence. Maybe a school project, maybe a camera test? Waiting Is Irrelevant When Time Is Non-Linear is consistent with Hara’s experiments into exploring the boundaries of film as a medium. In this project Hara addresses questions around linear storytelling and the threshold between film and filmmaker. Without end credits the film almost seems to continue on beyond its limited time frame.
REI
Gina Haraszti
REI tells the story of a shut-in, a depressed young woman who cannot bring herself to leave her apartment. She gradually loses contact not just with the outside world, but with reality itself. Upcoming talent Amélie Robitaille gives an stunning performance as the young recluse. When somebody you really love dies, you also die in a way, not literally, but spiritually. The main character is so dependent on her parents, that she cannot continue her life after their death. She locks herself up in this memory bubble, the house, where she can pretend that her parents could come home any minute. She never touches her parents’ stuff, expecting their return. Not being able to continue with her own life, she starts a virtual one. She watches films and plays games all the time to avoid being alone with her thoughts. She tries to forget her whole existence to get rid of the pain, collapsing her identity into her inner world.
Wall
Gina Haraszti
Have you ever felt the world you live in amplifies the fear and questions that you hold within? Take a look through the lens and witness a visual perception of solitude.
Bonbons bijoux
Sylvie Laliberté
“A very self-filmed and narcissistic video composed of brief chattering sequences, since the truth is short. And the frame? I am the frame. Bonbons bijoux also transports us into the intimacy of the home. The artist uses the ridiculousness of language to underline the difficult presence of the direct, the self-referential, the authentic. Bonbons bijoux takes us to the grating borders of the “suave feminine”. The ingenue, the naughty, the naïve get rid of their negative connotations. By making incongruous associations of words, objects and ideas, the artist blurs the lines, disintegrating the preconceived limits between girl and woman, between naivety and perversity.”
Oh la la du narratif
Sylvie Laliberté
This is the story of a love story. Often we think that love stories are lived in a lying position, very very lying. But no, love is lived standing up. So I tell it with both feet in the snow. I play with and within the limits of the screen to translate how much love tends towards freedom. Even when it is a captive story of its history and its form, here the video.
Papillon cerise
Sylvie Laliberté
In my bathtub, I ask myself questions about how bridges hold up, what love holds up… and then the characteristic of the man and the woman is not to know everything.
Mes amis les poissons
Sylvie Laliberté
“I capture small, select moments. They are taken from the heart of the subject. The subject is me. And I speak casually. I catch moments floating on a beautiful volume of water. My work is special because it suits me. I can sing, waddle and say things. A woman sits anywhere, that’s something. It’s elegant often enough if you want to cross your legs. I cross them.”
L’outil n’est pas toujours un marteau
Sylvie Laliberté
I wanted to share the instrument of my happiness. It’s easy, it’s clear and it’s well done. I hope you will enjoy it. And then everyone has a star.
J’ai tout compris
Sylvie Laliberté
A very simple video clip: the singer jumps from one picture to another and does some quality lip-sync on a real love song full of love. The whole thing is perfectly synchronized. It’s a clip without beautiful girls and guys behind the singer.
Il n’est pas innocent que le bonheur soit heureux
Sylvie Laliberté
Happiness is a tautological state. Why are we happy? Because we are happy. It is very simple. And it smells good. Still happy that we can be happy. This video was made for the Manif d’art 2003 in Quebec City, about happiness and simulacra.
Une femme est une femme et moi aussi
Sylvie Laliberté
Here is an interior woman who knows how to receive and who speaks very decorative and so feminine. The result of a very special attention, the image and the sound are one, that is to say that they go at the same speed; at the speed of a woman who seeks to know, in a very simple and practical way. Or when being a woman is almost child’s play.
Le soleil brille pour tout le monde mais les hommes préfèrent les blondes
Sylvie Laliberté
The Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal (FNC) (37th edition) invited me to make these small video sequences in order to display them in the city: in a subway station, at the Grande Bibliothèque and at the FNC Lab. We had to respect the theme, which was cinema, and we didn’t have to put any sound on so as not to disturb people. They told me that we live in a world where there are too many images. So, of course, I added some. In collaboration with Vidéographe, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, and the Société de transport de Montréal.
Bien sûr
Sylvie Laliberté
Small demonstration of “what a mountain is for” with some small objects, words and a song.
L’artiste surprise
Sylvie Laliberté
Small action film made during an artist residency in Paris. This is a natural choreography. I am not a dancer, but dancing in Paris is easy.
Récits plastiques
Sylvie Laliberté
When the double subjectivity strikes: that causes a tension between matter and form, sensitivity and intellect. It is the terrible threat of the formlessness that hovers. A visual artist’s view of life.
Paris chouchou
Sylvie Laliberté
A very touristy video, a kind of Sylvie in Paris. Tourists are people who care about themselves and seek to improve themselves through travel. Indeed, Paris has improved me a lot.
Rendre justice
Jacinthe Moffatt
The Honourable Juanita Westmoleland-Traoré was the first black person to be appointed to the Court of Quebec in 1999. Discover her inspiring journey and her vision of diversity in the legal profession during an intimate and touching meeting with young lawyer Shahad Salman.
Pendant ce temps en cuisine
Lysandre Leduc-Boudreau
From sourcing ingredients to creating unique menus, each episode highlights the world of chefs, while exposing the realities of owning and operating a restaurant.
Wintopia
Mira Burt-Wintonick
Wintopia is an intimate father-daughter story and poignant search for the meaning of utopia. Following the quick and tragic death of Peter Wintonick, Canada’s “documentary ambassador to the world”, his daughter Mira Burt-Wintonick dives into her father’s obsession with untangling the contradiction that is utopia. The remains of his unfinished film and several hundred hours of raw footage shot over 15 years leads Mira to surprising places and connections with her father, compelling all of us to live life with purpose.
Les Fils
Manon Cousin
In the late 1960s, in the Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montreal, a religious group called the Fils de la charité begins to question its civic involvement. Against the instructions of the Catholic Church, the activist working-class priests decide to take to the streets and meet the locals, considerably influencing the social and political climate of the time. Between opposition from those in power and socio-political struggles, Manon Cousin paints a fascinating portrait of a group of apostles fighting against the Church hierarchy. Thanks to insightful commentary and previously unseen archival materials, this empathetic and humanist documentary pays touching tribute to worthy representatives of the Quiet Revolution.
Cavebirds
Emily Gan
Emily Gan takes us inside her soft-spoken father’s world, with scenes of family life, interviews and poetic visions captured in the half-light.Painted on a backdrop of the edible bird’s nest farming industry, Cavebirds is a poignant film that reflects on matters of the heart, home and heritage.
Roseline comme dans les films
Sara Bourdeau
Now a woman in the spotlight, Roseline is a great actress with a prolific career. As she prepares to play her greatest role, fiction and reality intertwine to awaken a long-buried secret in the actress. Then silence is called, the engines start and someone shouts “Action!”.
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.