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20 Nov. - 01 Dec. 2024

Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
Office National du Film - Salle Alanis-Obomsawin
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17:15 La chambre d'ombres
Camilo Restrepo | 2024 | French | S.T English

Meant as an allegory, this film unfolds in a kind of symbolic huis-clos where a woman perceives and interprets different artistic representations of war.

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18:45 The Invisible Frontier *
Mariana Flores Villalba | 2022 | Spanish | S.T English

On a mission on a beautiful Pacific island, Mexican soldiers reflect on their choice of life and exist, for a moment, far from the violence that plagues the country.

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21:15 Six Knots / lessons on flight / About Happy Hippos...*
(1) Six Knots
Ali Vanderkruyk | 2024 | English | S.T French

Following cetacean conservationists, Six Knots poetically explores the relationship between science, practicality, spirituality, colonization, and perception.

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(2) lessons on flight
Cecilia Araneda | 2024 | - Without dialogue | S.T French

Under the surface of this short film with its zoological imprint hides a profound exploration of the Chilean countryside.

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(3) About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
Johannes Förster, Elkin Calderón Guevara | 2024 | German, Spanish | S.T French

A decolonial fable, this fantastic essay takes a unique look at peacock colonies in Berlin and hippopotamuses in Colombia to reflect on the roles of the powerful and on freedom.

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(4) De Gallo Qui Ovavit
Nina Forsman | 2024 | Finnish, English, German | S.T French

A look at the absurdity of authorities governing gender identity through the exploration of the unusual behaviours observed in hens and roosters from 1471 to the present day.

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20:30 Performance | Y'a matière au pays des éclairs + Suivre les traces
Performance | Y'a matière au pays des éclairs + Suivre les traces

Y’a matière au pays des éclairs is an audiovisual performance combining soundscapes by musician Frédéric Boisclair with live 16mm projections by filmmaker Charles-André Coderre. The performance focuses on the hydroelectric, aluminum and pulp and paper plants located in Shawinigan, Mauricie. The project's initiator, Frédéric Boisclair, comes from a family of factory workers at these plants. Composed of original material and 16mm archival footage taken from corporate films shot in the region's factories, Y’a matière au pays des éclairs examines the various places and materials specific to the Mauricie region's collective industrial imagination.

Ida Toninato is a composer and improviser whose creative starting point lies in attentive listening. In Suivre les traces, she navigates musical soundscapes using baritone saxophone and voice. Wind meets breath, which meets heartbeat, which meets rhythm, and in the midst of it all, the unknown of the moment emerges. The moment of performance. The hijacked sound object and its unexpected facets. The links we intuitively create guide us in our exploration of materials.

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22:00 Dance Party | DJ loum
Dance Party | DJ loum

FREE

A dance party with loum, a multidisciplinary artist whose work reflects on subjects such as memory, the digital condition, the living and liminal spaces. Her approach brings together sound, music, installation, still and moving images. A musician in the duo Saudade, she has given several performances on boreal soil and, for over half a decade, has hosted a radio show (n10.as) focusing on a blend of jazz, abstract rhythms, nostalgic dance music and hazy atmospheres. She is a frequent DJ at various events in the city.

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20:30 Okurimono *
Laurence Lévesque | 2024 | Japanese | S.T French

Back in Nagasaki, Noriko Oi is confronted with her deceased mother’s painful past and decides to break the silence surrounding the intergenerational trauma caused by the nuclear attack.

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18:00 The Soldier's Lagoon*
(1) Madah8do al8miwi nia
Kim Arseneault | 2024 | Abenaki, French | S.T French

In this animated short, Kim Arseneault rebuilds herself and finds the courage to face her anxiety, the monster inside of her.

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(2) The Soldier's Lagoon
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | 2024 | Spanish, castilian | S.T French

A sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo, this work explores the social and environmental realities of this unique region, where the future carries its memories as a legacy.

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18:00 Carlos Ferrand and the Grupo de Cine Liberación...*
(1) Visión de la Selva
Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos | 1971 | Spanish | S.T French

This cinematic pamphlet reveals the inequalities and condemns the repercussions caused by the destructive exploitation of the Amazon, including the genocide of several populations.

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(2) Una película sobre Javier Heraud
Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos | 1975 | Spanish | S.T French

A portrait of the talented revolutionary poet Javier Heraud, who died in an ambush in 1963 at just 21 years old, this short film takes a broader look at Peru’s colonial history.

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Activity or Event

Screening

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17h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
17H15 La chambre d'ombres
Camilo Restrepo | 2024 | French | S.T. English

Meant as an allegory, this film unfolds in a kind of symbolic huis-clos where a woman perceives and interprets different artistic representations of war.

See full details
18h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
18H45 The Invisible Frontier *
Mariana Flores Villalba | 2022 | Spanish | S.T. English

On a mission on a beautiful Pacific island, Mexican soldiers reflect on their choice of life and exist, for a moment, far from the violence that plagues the country.

See full details
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
18H00 The Soldier's Lagoon*
(1) Madah8do al8miwi nia
Kim Arseneault | 2024 | Abenaki, French | S.T. French or English

In this animated short, Kim Arseneault rebuilds herself and finds the courage to face her anxiety, the monster inside of her.

See full details (2) The Soldier's Lagoon
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa | 2024 | Spanish, castilian | S.T. French or English

A sophisticated, artistic look at the páramo, this work explores the social and environmental realities of this unique region, where the future carries its memories as a legacy.

See full details
Office National du Film - Salle Alanis-Obomsawin
18H00 Carlos Ferrand and the Grupo de Cine Liberación...*
(1) Visión de la Selva
Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos | 1971 | Spanish | S.T. French

This cinematic pamphlet reveals the inequalities and condemns the repercussions caused by the destructive exploitation of the Amazon, including the genocide of several populations.

See full details (2) Una película sobre Javier Heraud
Grupo de Cine Liberación sin Rodeos | 1975 | Spanish | S.T. French

A portrait of the talented revolutionary poet Javier Heraud, who died in an ambush in 1963 at just 21 years old, this short film takes a broader look at Peru’s colonial history.

See full details
20h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
20H30 Performance | Y'a matière au pays des éclairs + Suivre les traces
Performance | Y'a matière au pays des éclairs + Suivre les traces

Y’a matière au pays des éclairs is an audiovisual performance combining soundscapes by musician Frédéric Boisclair with live 16mm projections by filmmaker Charles-André Coderre. The performance focuses on the hydroelectric, aluminum and pulp and paper plants located in Shawinigan, Mauricie. The project's initiator, Frédéric Boisclair, comes from a family of factory workers at these plants. Composed of original material and 16mm archival footage taken from corporate films shot in the region's factories, Y’a matière au pays des éclairs examines the various places and materials specific to the Mauricie region's collective industrial imagination.

Ida Toninato is a composer and improviser whose creative starting point lies in attentive listening. In Suivre les traces, she navigates musical soundscapes using baritone saxophone and voice. Wind meets breath, which meets heartbeat, which meets rhythm, and in the midst of it all, the unknown of the moment emerges. The moment of performance. The hijacked sound object and its unexpected facets. The links we intuitively create guide us in our exploration of materials.

More info
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Principale
20H30 Okurimono *
Laurence Lévesque | 2024 | Japanese | S.T. French or English

Back in Nagasaki, Noriko Oi is confronted with her deceased mother’s painful past and decides to break the silence surrounding the intergenerational trauma caused by the nuclear attack.

See full details
21h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Fernand-Seguin
21H15 Six Knots / lessons on flight / About Happy Hippos...*
(1) Six Knots
Ali Vanderkruyk | 2024 | English | S.T. French

Following cetacean conservationists, Six Knots poetically explores the relationship between science, practicality, spirituality, colonization, and perception.

See full details (2) lessons on flight
Cecilia Araneda | 2024 | - Without dialogue

Under the surface of this short film with its zoological imprint hides a profound exploration of the Chilean countryside.

See full details (3) About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
Johannes Förster, Elkin Calderón Guevara | 2024 | German, Spanish | S.T. French or English

A decolonial fable, this fantastic essay takes a unique look at peacock colonies in Berlin and hippopotamuses in Colombia to reflect on the roles of the powerful and on freedom.

See full details (4) De Gallo Qui Ovavit
Nina Forsman | 2024 | Finnish, English, German | S.T. French or English

A look at the absurdity of authorities governing gender identity through the exploration of the unusual behaviours observed in hens and roosters from 1471 to the present day.

See full details
22h
Cinémathèque québécoise - Salle Norman-McLaren
22H00 Dance Party | DJ loum
Dance Party | DJ loum

FREE

A dance party with loum, a multidisciplinary artist whose work reflects on subjects such as memory, the digital condition, the living and liminal spaces. Her approach brings together sound, music, installation, still and moving images. A musician in the duo Saudade, she has given several performances on boreal soil and, for over half a decade, has hosted a radio show (n10.as) focusing on a blend of jazz, abstract rhythms, nostalgic dance music and hazy atmospheres. She is a frequent DJ at various events in the city.

More info
16h30After circus *

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