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Le fond de l'air
Location
Main screening room
Date
April 19th, 2024
Duration
78 min
Cycle
Simon Beaulieu, Retrospective and Carte Blanche

After several nuanced portrait films of Quebec cultural figures, Simon Beaulieu, also a screenwriter, follows a trajectory that brings his work closer to the essay film. In addition to screening his films, the carte blanche we offer him showcases the diversity of his influences and the eclecticism of his tastes.

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White Noise
Directed by
Simon Beaulieu
Language
French
Origins
Quebec
Year
2019
Duration
78 min
Genre
Documentary
Format
Digital
Synopsis

A reflection on the fate of humanity in the Anthropocene epoch, White Noise is a roller-coaster of a film, a whirlwind of sounds and images. Simon Beaulieu's fourth feature film, this cinematographic essay plunges the viewer into a subjective sensory adventure, a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. An intense aesthetic experience of the imminent collapse of our civilization at a time of climate change and eco-anxiety.

White Noise

Simon Beaulieu

A filmmaker and screenwriter, Simon Beaulieu has written and directed three feature-length documentaries exploring the issues of the artist’s engagement with society and the survival of Quebec culture: Lemoyne about the painter Serge Lemoyne in 2005, Godin about the writer and politician in 2011, as well as Miron: A Man Returned from Beyond the World in 2014, an exploratory documentary about Quebec poet Gaston Miron that screened at many international festivals. In 2019, he co-wrote the screenplay and dialogue for Maxime Giroux's The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur). That same year, he directed a fourth feature film, White Noise (Le fond de l'air), in which he explores the form of experimental essay to address the Anthropocene and the environmental crisis.

Photo: Frédérick Pelletier

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