Animal macula
Author Muriel Pic has created several films inspired by Georges Franju's Blood of the Beasts, an unparalleled work shot in the Vaugirard slaughterhouses. During her visit to Montreal, we will present two of her films, Franju's masterpiece as well as Sylvain L’Espérance's flamboyant Animal macula.
In the presence of the filmmaker, Sylvain L'Espérance
Animal Macula gathers animal representations from the world's film archives, across all eras. L'Espérance combines them, bringing out meaning, and challenging our troubled relationship with animals.
Sylvain L'Espérance
Born in Montreal, Sylvain L'Espérance studied visual arts and film. He has directed a dozen films that combine direct cinema and experimental research to explore reality in a poetic lens. His films have been screened in many documentary festivals around the world. Intérieurs du delta won the Award for Best Director at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence (2010) and Sur le rivage du monde, the International Competition Award at the DOK.fest in Munich (2013). Combat au bout de la nuit has been selected in the Panorama section of the Berlinale (2017). Animal Macula won the Special Jury Prize in the National Feature Film Competition at RIDM 2021.
