Archives in the Hands of Filmmakers

“Ushev recomposes and triturates with great aesthetic vigor and panache Eisenstein's The Old and the New, giving this title a new historical dimension, the Old becoming the USSR and the New Putin's Russia.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications

“The Austrian-Canadian experimental filmmaker revisits the themes of her recent films (species extinction, the environmental divide), rearranging images from Soviet dystopian fictions.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications

“Entitled Mental Toughness, the filmmaker and performer offers an eminently plastic reworking and alteration of Soviet sports films from the 1980s depicting wrestling and pole vaulting.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications

“With this film, the Bulgarian-Canadian filmmaker returns to the roots of her approach and the cinema of reuse. Once again, the question of the cinematic landscape is at stake, based in part on the reuse of a 35mm print of an incomplete film by Alexandre Sokourov.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications

“An intimate, contemplative film, composed of 65mm landscape rephotographs of some shots from the film Gypsies are Found Near Heaven, by Moldavian-born filmmaker Emil Loteanu.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications

“For the first time, the filmmaker and performer draws on a corpus of heritage films (notably Georgian, from the Soviet era) to create a visual world attached to the analog medium, from a formal perspective in which the composition of shots enunciates a veritable plastic manifesto.”
– Guillaume Lafleur, Director Diffusion, Programming and Publications