Claudie Lévesque (almost all) program # 2
In line with the exhibition Ritournelles, a work in triple projection presented until February 12, we offer the first retrospective of filmmaker Claudie Lévesque. Between experimental and documentary cinema, between references to intimacy and the expressiveness of the body, she draws a sinuous path where the form is part of a genealogy of female creation (Bausch, Akerman, Deren).
Two filmmakers exchange impressions of the place and the moment through film-letters, supported by a soundtrack that oscillates between real and immaterial. The sounds then become narration and carry the moving images of an encounter that takes shape according to the 16mm reels that alternate from one to the other.
In this short portrait, animation filmmaker Michèle Cournoyer reveals her intimate relationship with creation. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2017 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.
Images in Super 8. Fragments of an ordinary life are connected by silence and voices. The voices speak of life and death, materiality and spirituality, immanence and transcendence. The silence is that of the countryside, but also that of repressed memories, of the unsaid, of the secret things that happen between the two states of man, nature and culture. (Réalisatrices équitables)
Short portrait of the poet Michel Albert enhanced by Super8 family archives from his childhood.
A young woman returns to the land of her childhood where she confronts her memories.
Claudie Lévesque
Claudie Lévesque obtained a Bachelor's degree in Film from Concordia University in 1991. Since 1996, she has devoted herself to media arts as an artist and cultural worker with the artist-run centers Les Films de l'Autre and Main Film, where she has directed several short films and special programming projects. Her work has been presented in numerous festivals and events. From 2003 to 2007, she participated in the Montreal Super 8 Festival as well as in creations for collective presentations. Consistent with an experimental approach, in 2011 she produced her first documentary work entitled Ma famille en 17 bobines. She regularly sits on various juries and committees in cinema and media arts and is a curator and project manager for festivals and dissemination events such as the 50 years of video art within the framework of Marseille - Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture.
