Film Categories: Landscape

  • Full Stop Hilltop

    A man’s elliptical story of the places he’s seen, the people he’s been and the water he’s drank.

  • RH Factor

    A short film about crossing bridges, crossing the positive and the negative, and the unpredictability of love and new lives.

  • Tell Us The Truth Josephine – A Bitter Immigrant Story

    “Tell Us the Truth Josephine” is a 15-minute experimental drama about a Maltese woman’s search for “home.” Josephine struts across Canada on stilts. And for Josephine to find home she must accept the Truth. And once she does she can come off her stilts and land. Her journey is haunted by fragmented voices and images of her bloodline – bitter immigrant stories.

  • Cote Jardin

    A quick view of three remarquable organic gardens : Le Tomple and Le jardin du Mas d’Abri in the department of Gard and Le jardin des Sambucs in the department of Hérault. The film goes over their general layout along pathways amongst the vegetation, ponds and people or animals that happen to be there at the time. Un bref aperçu de trois jardins biologiques remarquables : Le Tomple et Le jardin du Mas d’Abri dans le Gard et Le Jardin des Sambucs dans l’Hérault. Le film parcourt leur agencement général à travers les chemins parmi la végétation, les bassins et…

  • Les Coquelicots (Poppies)

    Worn out by the sea, the Sète fishing boats decide to spend a day in the country amongst the poppies surrounding Arles, Bédarrides and the Thouzon Grottos. Fatigués de la mer, les chalutiers de Sète décident de passer une journée à la campagne en prenant un bain de pavots à côté d’Arles, de Bédarrides et de la Grotte de Thouzon.

  • Voiliers et Coquelicots (Poppies and Sailboats)

    Little is necessary for everything to appear differently. The date, the hour, the weather, the space’s layout, one’s glance or presence of mind can make everything change. The boats sail out of the Vieux port in Marseille to be amongst the poppy fields. Il suffit de peu pour que tout apparaisse autrement. Date, heure, météo, regard, disposition des lieux, présence d’esprit … tout peut changer. R.L.

  • Bouquets 21-30

    BOUQUETS 21-30 is a part of the ecological BOUQUETS series, consisting of one-minute films composed in the camera by weaving the characteristics of different environments with the activities there at the time. The filming basically entails using the film strip as a canvas with the freedom to film frames on any part of the strip in any order, running the film through the camera as many times as needed. Thus each bouquet of flowers is also a unique bouquet of film frames. BOUQUET 21 was filmed in a tiny paradise which took years to create, La Baraque, an organic farm…

  • Ghosts and Gravel Roads

    An inventory of lost memories and places, the sun bleached landscape of Saskatchewan serves as a metaphor for displacement, a framing of emptiness and absence. Traveling to forgotten towns and channeled through old family photographs the camera catalogues the haunting remnants of the past, frail monuments and communities laid bare, broken under economic collapse. Under the weight of the prairie skies a visceral, personal encounter is revealed in the solace of open space. Awards: Silver Medal for Best Documentary, Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, 2008; one of the Top Ten Canadian Short Films of 2008 by the…

  • Parícutin

    In February of 1943, a fissure appeared in the cornfield of Dionisio Pulido, a farmer in the Mexican state of Michoacán. Ash and incandescent rocks emerging from this fissure preceded lava flows, violent explosions, and the birth of Mexico’s youngest volcano. Despite the prayers of the locals, the lava flows displaced the populations of two nearby villages and part of that of another. The final explosion of the Parícutin volcano was in January of 1952, nine years after its birth. By March of that year, it merely fumed, standing 424.6 metres tall-the first volcano ever to have been observed through…

  • Armoire

    It was all started by a Red Robin who one day in the spring, obsessively went after his double in the large mirror at the end of our garden. Just having fun with the surrounding consequences regarding storage, openings, motion and nature, among others.