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 lives in Montreal and has been working with media arts for over twenty years. She collaborates with several organizations (Main Film, Les Films de l'Autre, IFCO, CQAM) where she produces installation and programming projects (Capsules-mémoire, Main Film, 2007; Les 50 ans d'art vidéo, CQAM - Marseille, 2013). Since 2011, she regularly sits on various film and video selection committees.
In parallel, she leads a career as a filmmaker. Her practice unfolds through experimental cinema and video art. Between 2005 and 2008, she participated in spontaneous creations (Montréal S8 and One Take S8) using her favorite filmic medium, Super 8. She made short films such as Magie blanche (2005), which features her daughter. In the form of portraits or self-portraits, her work deals with intimate subjects that involve her or her loved ones. She has made more than a dozen short films, including an experimental documentary entitled Ma famille en 17 bobines (2011), which has been presented in numerous festivals (RIDM, Visions du Réel in Switzerland). In 2012, IFCO is dedicating a retrospective to her, with some of her works being screened on film. Her work has been shown in several festivals in Canada and internationally. She is distributed by Les Films du 3 mars, Vidéographe and GIV. In 2020, she completed a Master's degree in experimental media at UQAM, which earned her the Prix Philippe-Ménard for best research-creation thesis.
