Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
Over images filmed by her father, transformed into bursts of colour as splendid as they are formidable, her voice recounts fragments of dreams and the fear of the unknown.
L' ÉCLAT DU MAL
- Louise Bourque
- 2005
- Canada (Quebec)
- 9 min
Uxdoc RIDM
It is the story of a man who’s lost his ability to speak, and his daughter who seeks to communicate with him, exploring aphasia as if it were a distant land.
EMPEREUR
- Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen
- 2023
- France, Germany
- 40 min
Uxdoc RIDM
An immersive journey through France's nuclear fission and fusion plants, featuring interviews with experts on the future of energy.
ENERGEIA
- Ugo Arsac
- 2023
- France
- 25 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
Constantly switching between the film plane and the home movies printed on it, the image, altered by various artistic manipulations, embodies the discontinuity of memory. (HSB)
FISSURES
- Louise Bourque
- 1999
- Canada
- 3 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
An obsession, a fleeting image, a longing: the home as a romanticized, idealized place of intimacy, insistently inhabiting the most personal sphere, the territory of dreams and memories, of fantasy and desire. Using a short segment from personal home-movies (edited and reproduced multiple times) as a primary source of imagery, the process is a formal and lyrical exploration whereby the film is being essentially treated as a material, a surface, a membrane that can be manipulated directly in a "desperate" attempt at reclaiming and demystifying, at finding and revealing, at mapping the ineffable, at capturing and letting go...The original home-movie images once reproduced were affected through a variety of hand manipulations and chemical processes (without the use of optical effects) such as toning, deterioration of the emulsion and emulsion lifts, solarization, tinting, ripping, perforation, collage and hand-made "mattes", painting, printing, bleaching, scratching, as well as manipulations in contact printing and the developing process.
(Maude Trottier)
(Maude Trottier)
IMPRINT
- Louise Bourque
- 1997
- 14 min
National Feature Competition
At once cerebral, touching, and funny, this dense, minimalist (auto)biographical film unfolds as a creative observation on artistic exploration and life.
J'AI PERDU DE VUE LE PAYSAGE
- Sophie Bédard Marcotte
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. English
- 85 min
Retrospective Louise Bourque : Reality Unfolded in the Echoes of Memory
Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s monologue Not I, this gentle yet anguished work revisits home movies to reflect on the social constraints imposed upon women. (HSB)
JUST WORDS
- Louise Bourque
- 1991
- Canada (Quebec)
- 10 min
Wapikoni
In a clever blend of horror, comedy, documentary, and militant fiction, this unique portrait asserts a jubilant territorial sovereignty, without compromise. (HSB)
LETHAL ETHEL
- Elayna Einish
- 2025
- Canada
- s.t. French
- 9 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
Rejecting pessimism, this film, made entirely from archival footage, revisits 50 years of Chilean history to keep dreaming of the necessary political change, beyond shattered hopes.
THE LIFE THAT WILL COME
- Karin Cuyul
- 2025
- Chile, Colombia
- s.t. French or English
- 92 min
Magnus Isacsson Competition
In the arid hell of the U.S.-Mexico border, a couple of Mexican volunteers struggle to restore dignity to the victims of a tragic migratory journey.
MAIS OÙ VA-T-ON, COYOTE?
- Jonah Malak
- 2025
- Canada (Quebec)
- s.t. French or English
- 85 min
National Short and Medium-Length Competition
Engaging with images of the Second Intifada shot by her father, filmmaker Nada El-Omari questions the meaning of images, the fragility of memory, and the erosion of the value of truth.
Uxdoc RIDM
In his living room, a retired playwright unveils a revelation to the spectator : he is losing his memories and seeks companionship to reconstruct his cherished remembrances.
QUEER UTOPIA
- Lui Avallos
- 2023
- Brazil, Portugal
- 25 min