Film Categories: French language

  • Ecole Bleue Volume 1, L’

    En apprenant à travailler le metal, il y a 3500 ans-déjà, l’activité humaine entrait dans une nouvelle dimension. En transposant ses connaissances de chasseur à l’exploration de nouveaux alliages, elle fusionnait l’ancestrale transmission de savoir à des structures moléculaire inconnues des gens d’alors. Aujourd’hui, l’équipe du garage Rawdon Auto Suspension poursuit une demarche analogue. En se livrant corps à corps dans la reparation et la maintennce de materiel vital au fonctionnement de notre époque, elle offre à notre mémoire les qualities morales du travail sur le metal: La precision, la patiencence, la réflexion, la force, l’intelligence, la générosité.

  • Ecole Bleue Volume 2, L’

    En apprenant à travailler le metal, il y a 3500 ans-déjà, l’activité humaine entrait dans une nouvelle dimension. En transposant ses connaissances de chasseur à l’exploration de nouveaux alliages, elle fusionnait l’ancestrale transmission de savoir à des structures moléculaire inconnues des gens d’alors. Aujourd’hui, l’équipe du garage Rawdon Auto Suspension poursuit une demarche analogue. En se livrant corps à corps dans la reparation et la maintennce de materiel vital au fonctionnement de notre époque, elle offre à notre mémoire les qualities morales du travail sur le metal: La precision, la patiencence, la réflexion, la force, l’intelligence, la générosité.

  • Réveille (Wake Up)

    This simple and engaging animated film tells of an event which changed the course of French history in North America: the deportation of the Acadians, or “neutralist French,” from Nova Scotia by the English and Americans. The French Canadians are burned out of their homes, displaced to Louisiana. The image of soldiers/oppressors transformed into children’s toy soldiers has been called one of the most quietly powerful moments in animation history. The anger and poinancy of “Reveille” is enhanced by a haunting Acadian folk song.

  • Tourbillon, Le

    Over and over I am mesmerized by Jeanne Moreau’s presence in cinema. Enigmatic, gutsy, provocative, she defines the true female avant-garde artist. (LB) English and French with subtitles.

  • INDUSTRY: Recent Works by Richard Kerr – Limited Edition

    INDUSTRIE / INDUSTRY Oeuvres récentes / Recent Works by Richard Kerr Edited by Brett Kashmere Part high-tech, part handmade, this unique DVD-format exhibition catalog contains two hours of audio-visual material, including three new collage films and a spellbinding slide show by the Montreal filmmaker and visual artist Richard Kerr, as well as a bonus 60-minute audio collage/radio drama by Gerstyn Hayward. Packaged in original handcrafted and painted covers, the disc is accompanied by 70 pages of critical writing, notebook drawings, production notes, photographs, exhibition documentation and related artworks, plus a pullout gallery floor plan. With essays, conversations, program notes and…

  • INDUSTRY: Recent Works by Richard Kerr – Educational Edition

    INDUSTRIE / INDUSTRY Oeuvres récentes / Recent Works by Richard Kerr Edited by Brett Kashmere This unique DVD-format exhibition catalog contains two hours of audio-visual material, including three new collage films and a spellbinding slide show by the Montreal filmmaker and visual artist Richard Kerr, as well as a bonus 60-minute audio collage/radio drama by Gerstyn Hayward. The disc is accompanied by 70 pages of critical writing, notebook drawings, production notes, photographs, exhibition documentation and related artworks, in printable PDF format. With essays, conversations, program notes and other texts by Gerda Johanna Cammaer, Randolph Jordan, Brett Kashmere, Michael Rollo, Astria…

  • Basement Girl, The

    Abandoned by her lover, a young woman finds comfort and safety in her basement apartment. Mundane routines, a diet of junk food and the warmth of the television insulate her from the pain and betrayal of her ill-fated relationship. Eventually, The Basement Girl emerges – transformed and ready to “make it on her own.” “The Basement Girl” breaks new cinematic territory by employing multiple formats from traditional 16 mm film to toy cameras including a modified Nintendo Game Boy digital camera and the Intel Mattel computer microscope. “Midi Onodera’s latest film is a witty and wonderful meditation on how women…

  • Cri du Silence, Le

    “Le Cri du Silence” follows Jean-Marc Dalpe step-by-step through his life and his experiences in Penetanguishene, Sudbury, Toronto, Rockland, Ottawa, and many more cities and villages. The film presents a portrait of the author and playwright, of this world and the Franco-Ontarian community. Dalpe’s poetry and plays reflect the conflicts, passions, and fears of those he has encountered. From Snoopy Dufour, the biker of the Amoco strike, to Therese Groleau, who inspired Dalpe’s play “Hawkesbury Blues,” “Le Cri du Silence” presents precious testimonies and stirs the memories of those who have felt the Dalpe effect so intensely. Note: French Language

  • Jours en fleurs

    “Jours en fleurs” is a reclamation of flower-power in which images of trees in springtime bloom are subjected to the floriferous ravages of menarcheal substance in a gestation of decay. The title is based on an expression from my coming-of-age in Acadian French Canada where girls would refer to having their menstrual periods as “être dans ses fleurs.” As a result of incubation in menstrual blood for several months, the original images inscribed on the emulsion undergo violent alterations. The shedding of the unfertilized womb depredates the fertilized blossoms and substitutes its own dark beauty. – LB “Those few shorts…

  • Quatuor de l’exil, Le

    This film tells us the story of four francophones, aged 17 to 19, who have come from the war-torn and hunger-ravaged country of Somalia. Having just arrived in Canada, they are searching for cultural reference points that allow them to reconstruct their universe. But the way they live marginalizes them and they do not always recognize themselves in modernity. How can they reconcile old and new, past and present, myth and reality? It is this quest for remembrance, identity and freedom which the filmmaker seeks to capture.