L.A L.A End
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.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the FIFA team, moderated by Ralph Elawani
Hollywood, the capital of the American dream, long embodied glamour and grandeur: majestic theaters, towering palm trees, golden light, and pastel-colored cars. Today, movie theaters are closing, façades are crumbling, and the homeless sleep atop the stars of Hollywood Blvd. While the media proclaims the decline of this cinematic Mecca, this film sets out to uncover the remnants of a bygone golden age. Through the iconic figure of Marilyn Monroe, a symbol of that era, the camera explores a city in decline, where myth collides with reality. The portrait of a legend becomes, in turn, the portrait of a city in transformation.
Chantal Stoman
Chantal Stoman is a French photographer who lives in Paris. Her work is an in-depth observation of the relationship between people, intimacy, and places. After a decade working in fashion photography, she closes a chapter and opens a new one with A Woman’s Obsession (2005) where she examines the special relationship between Japanese women, luxury and fashion. Above all, she is fascinated by places. For their beauty, sometimes a little faded, but also because they bring together everything she explores in her work: architecture, history, people and the way in which inhabitants make architecture their own. Between 2008 and 2012, she dedicates herself to Lost Highway, where the city, seen as a living organism in constant transformation, becomes the central element of her work. In 2017, she directed Ōmecittà, which explores a small, forgotten town in Japan, frozen in time. LA. LA. End (2024), her latest documentary project, takes a similar approach, searching for the remnants of Hollywood's golden age in downtown Los Angeles.
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