Les Vidéographes : Au-delà du réel
En 2021, Vidéographe fête ses 50 ans d’engagement continu envers la recherche et le rayonnement de la vidéo et des pratiques expérimentales de l’image en mouvement. Toujours animé par le feu de ses fondateurs et fondatrices, Vidéographe propose une célébration traçant des ponts entre les générations d’artistes qui s’y sont rassemblé.e.s et qui sera axée sur la création, la collaboration et le partage des œuvres de sa collection.
Robert Forget, the initiator of Vidéographe, presents the editing room, the videotheatre and everything that goes with it.
After losing his job, a man is forced to go on welfare and move to a different neighbourhood where rent is more affordable. In the process of filming this new reality he did not know existed, he unwittingly takes on its characteristics, and the traits of his neighbours.
Dogs, chairs, spaghetti. Games above the void.
This is a story about a love story. We often believe that love stories are lived in a horizontal position, very very horizantal. However, love is experienced standing up. So I tell this story with both feet in the snow. I work with and within the limits of the screen to show how much love tends towards freedom, even when it's a story confined by its own history and form, in this case, video.
At first sight, they would appear to live in two different worlds. He lives in Monaco, is young, brimming with health and a millionaire. They live in a semi-basement in Quebec City, are retired, and have ruined their health with pills, coffee and cigarettes. And yet, beyond everything that separates them, they share the same passion : automobile racing. Shot during the 1997 Formula 1 Grand Prix, Le Beau Jacques follows the parallel activities of Jacques Villeneuve and the director’s two aunts, the race-car driver’s greatest fans. This short film in the form of a family album is a kind of tragi-comic essay on the ways we identify with our idols.
It's Christmas night. Pierre, the principal protagonist of After Brenda by the same author, lies in a deserted corridor. Accompanied by a bottle, he cries out his solitude, his despair, and sends a prayer to Christ.
The Coldest Day of the Year takes place in a future where a cataclysmic event has made it impossible to trace a coherent meaning of the past and to tell a story of the present.
