Chants de l'Est

Two insect-loving artist friends embark on a relay work before the return of the American Great Eastern Brood X cicada, which emerges in the eastern United States every 17 years. This experimental film uses a combination of long-distance interviews, sound recordings of the cicada’s intoxicating song, and images in a variety of media and formats, while highlighting the artists’ process, which is fraught with pitfalls. These include, the use of a faulty camera and out-of-date film, and, above all, the impossibility of crossing the U.S. border during COVID. An aesthetic force of rare artistic candour, this skillfully cobbled-together audio and visual immersion bears witness to a periodic natural event while painting a sociological portrait of an America that may also be at the start of a new cycle. (HSB)

This film may potentially contain seizure triggers for those with photosensitive epilepsy.

The screening on the 28th will be followed by Eastern Anthems Concert: Musical Performance and Live Projection with MOAB + David Rothenberg + Broods XIII & XIX

Co-presented by POP Montréal and with the support of the Labdoc

competition : New Visions Competition

Eastern Anthems