Eastern Anthems
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Winner of the Prix Pierre-et-Yolande-Perrault, RVQC 2025
An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings of history, the power of nature and rebirth.
Matthew Wolkow
Since the mid-2010s, young experimental filmmaker and documentarian Matthew Wolkow has been making his way with a unique vision of the world around him. Positioned between nature—sublimated by an undeniable photogenic force—and purely literary explorations questioning the status and purpose of his film project, the viewer searches for their bearings and gradually finds them while moving through a collection of images and sounds.
Jean-Jacques Martinod
Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, media artist, film curator, abyssal researcher, and clandestine anarchivist. His work is engaged within extended modes of noetic and intersubjective experience manifest in an ongoing practice of experimental cinema. His research focuses on the relation between the human and the non-human, folk mythology, anemic memory, sur-regional biomes, hydra techno-logics, relating with living worlds and engaging in poetic mediation within these systems and their extended cohabitant.
