Zo Reken
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.
In Port-au-Prince, a humanitarian aid organization’s 4x4 vehicle has been hacked: its Haitian passengers now use it to talk about neocolonialism and to denounce the promises of the international community that were made and never kept. Outside, barricades are erected, and the people cry out in anger.
Emmanuel Licha
Initially trained in urban geography, and then visual arts, Emanuel Licha is an artist and filmmaker. His films focus on specific spatial and architectural objects, leading to a reading of the features of the urban landscape as so many social, historical, and political signs. His film installations featured in major art institutions worldwide, and his short films Mirages (2009) and How Do We Know What We Know? (2011) were screened internationally in film festivals. His first feature-length documentary, Hotel Machine (2016), premiered at Cinéma du réel at the Centre Pompidou and won various prizes, including les Étoiles de la SCAM, at the FiDLAb and at DokLeipzig. zo reken is his second feature-length documentary film.