À TRAVERS LE TEMPSDocumentary essays dealing with time, as the past gives weight to the present, questioning our perceptions and received history, either to reconstruct it or wipe the slate clean.
All over the world, idealist revolutionaries shed their blood to denounce injustices. However, at our intimate core, blood is our most human possession, the very symbol of life. A sequence of sketches drawn using filmmaker Theodore Ushev’s own blood explore this paradox.
Short film , Experimental
CANADA | 2 minutes | 2015
As two years of planting pass, Don Zeghers — a farmer from Holland, Manitoba — phases out his multi-generational family farm. With experimental photography on Super 8, 16mm and digital mediums, his son follows this life change and the dissolution of the family farm — perhaps a microcosm of the modern industrialized world.
Short film , Documentary
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2015
A film about growing up in the shadow of the Cold War.
CANADA | 16 minutes | 2015
1221 Amor is a video combining live action with 3D animation. It explores issues of narrative in a work of fiction that has no protagonists and relies on matter and its processes of transformation. The story centers on the relationships between different mineral states, such as rock, bone, and fossil. In the three sequences that make up 1221 Amor, different temporalities merge to create a compressed, indefinite timeframe that runs counter to our traditional linear representation of time. The...
Short film , Animation
QUéBEC/CANADA | 13 minutes | 2014
Next Episode by Hubert Aquin was published in October 1965. Fifty years later, a young reader dives back into the archives and goes back in time as he reads this mythical novel.
QUEBEC | 33 minutes | 2015
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