EXPERIMENTAL FILMS PROGRAMS
PROGRAM 1 : ICONOCLASTES QUÉBÉCOIS
SATURDAY MAY 20
CARRÉ 150 (Salle F. Lemaire)
11 AM - $15
Where are the outsiders, the unclassifiable, the radicals? This program assembles seven experimental documentaries from Quebec. Here the term “documentary” refers less to a representation of reality than to a provocation, a hallucinatory vision of the real. Made by these iconoclasts, at times image breakers, a number of these films reshape real images. As is the case with « Raw Power » by PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT, created in collaboration with musician Marc Hurtado (Étant Donnés), « Thuya » by ANTOINE LAROCQUE and ANTOINE PROVENCHER, and « La promesse du ciel » by MARTIN BUREAU in collaboration with d’Orion, Kuster, Tétreault and Lussier quartet. Others use found footage, such as in « 3 inch telescope » by GUILLAUME VALLÉE & CHARLOTTE CLERMONT, « L’adversaire » by FRÉDÉRICK MAHEUX, and « Analog » by DOMINIC GAGNON, or abstract material as with « Origami » by MAXIME CORBEIL-PERRON. Together these films enable an exploration of the diverse forms of dialogues between music and experimental cinema.
PIERRE-LUC VAILLANCOURT
« Raw Power »
Video, 6 minutes, Quebec, 2020
Music by Marc Hurtado
GUILLAUME VALLÉE & CHARLOTTE CLERMONT
« 3 inch telescope »
Video, 7 minutes, Quebec, 2019
MAXIME CORBEIL-PERRON
« Origami »
Video, 2 minutes, Quebec, 2021
Music by Jennifer Thiessen, Martin Tétreault and Maxime Corbeil-Perron
DOMINIC GAGNON
« Analog »
Video, 10 minutes, Quebec, 2022
FRÉDÉRICK MAHEUX
« L'adversaire » - (Lys Inversé – Trois films contre le Québec - partie 3)
Video, 3 minutes, Quebec, 2013
Music by Un regard froid
ANTOINE LAROCQUE & ANTOINE PROVENCHER
« Thuya »
Video, 17 minutes, Quebec, 2018
MARTIN BUREAU
« La promesse du ciel »
Video, 6 minutes, Quebec, 2022
Music by Érick d'Orion, Robbie Kuster, Martin Tétreault and René Lussier
PROGRAM 2 : PAYSAGES ARGENTIQUES
SUNDAY MAY 21
CARRÉ 150 (Salle F. Lemaire)
11 AM - $15
This program assembles the work of three of the most fascinating filmmakers working in Québec. The first film in the program, « I. » by ALEXANDRE LAROSE is the inaugural chapter in a serie of cinematographic tableaux of domestic scenes “scènes de ménage”, built around his parents’ daily routines. Through unique processing to film, he works to reveal the singularity of places, the movement of figures, and the connections between them. In the second film, « Dans les cieux et sur la terre », ERIN WEISGERBER films the monumental structure of a church, transforming it into a dynamic play of lights and colours by means of a sequence of truly alchemical innovations. Shot and entirely developed by hand on reversible 16mm films, the images were composed in camera during shooting. Made on 16mm films in the Atacama desert on the border between Chili and Argentina, « earthhearthearth » by DAÏCHI SAÏTO is an optical journey where the borders between the earth and sky dissolve in a hallucinatory chromatic and rhythmic explosion. Combining Jason Sharp’s music with the photochemical and material qualities of his images, the filmmaker invites us to reflect on the vulnerability of the earth, and of cinema itself.
ALEXANDRE LAROSE
« I. »
35mm, 14 minutes, Quebec, 2022
ERIN WEISGERBER
« Dans les cieux et sur la terre »
35mm, 12 minutes, Canada, Quebec, 2022
Music by Andrea-Jane Cornell
DAÏCHI SAÏTO
« earthearthearth »
35mm, 30 minutes, Japan, Quebec, 2021
Music by Jason Sharp
Karl Lemieux, experimental films curator
