The Inheritors
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 October 6 screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Official Selection, RIDM & DOK Leipzig 2025
By centring the voice of a colony of ring-billed gulls, The Inheritors disrupts the usual perspective of wildlife documentary and explores new ways of living and dying on a planet haunted by mass consumption and pollution.
Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Serge-Olivier Rondeau is a filmmaker whose work intersects media arts and experimental ethnography. His films and installations explore the relationships between humans and non-humans—particularly animals, plants and technology. His work has appeared in numerous exhibits and festivals across Canada and internationally, including as a member of the group Épopée and co-founder of the After Faceb00k collective. Fractures, an installation featuring the films Ruptures and Insurgence and focusing on the Quebec student strikes of 2012, was featured at Manif d’Art 7. As part of the Mois de la Photo à Montréal, the McCord Museum exhibited In Loving Memory <3 an immersive nine-screen video dedicated to Facebook users who live on after death on the site’s servers. In 2021, he co-directed his first feature-length documentary Ressources with Hubert Caron-Guay, which made its premiere at IDFA. The film examines the modes of existence of animals, humans and landscapes caught up in the industrial meat production chain. The Inheritors, his second documentary feature, launched at Dok Leipzig.
