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Living Vocalities

David B. Ricard / 2018 / 80 min. / Canada / FRENCH / SUBS ENGLISH

Synopsis

While filming his native land, David B. Ricard is entrusted with the task of documenting the creating process of a show of poetry and music across the Canadian Francophonie. This project gives him the opportunity to question the relationship to rooting (land, language), adaptation (poetry, territory) and the process of relationship with the other (team, subject). In this documentary essay, the filmmaker questions his own point of view as a Quebec documentarist. He explores these themes formally inspired by the poem Le Vivant by Carl Lacharité, driving force of the project.

Cast & Crew

Director : David B. Ricard
Screenplay : David B. Ricard
Cinematographer : Claudia Kedney-Bolduc / Simon Dumas / Julie Pelletier / David B. Ricard
Editor : Jean-Philippe Gagnon
Sound : Ariane Lehoux / Érick d'Orion
Sound design & Sound mix : Julien Éclancher
Music : Érick d'Orion
Cast : David B. Ricard / Érick d’Orion / Simon Dumas / Jean-Yves Fréchette / Claudia Kedney-Bolduc / Ariane Lehoux / Carl Lacharité
Production : Productions Rhizome

Genre

Documentaire

Topics

Cultural diversity, Literature and poetry, Music

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Biography

David B. Ricard works in Quebec City as an independent director and video designer for the performing arts. His work deals with intimacy and questions the cinematic medium as well as the representation of the self through personal archives. His first feature-length documentary, Surfing on grace (2016) follows his connection to his younger brother, a champion skateboard slalom racer. In Living Vocalities (2018), he documents the journey of translating a Quebec poem across the Canadian Francophone landscape. David against Goliath (2022) is his third feature-length documentary.

Filmography

2022

David against Goliath / 96 min.
2016

Surfing on grace / 60 min.

Festivals

- 2018 -
In Competition | Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada

- 2019 -
In Competition | FIFA – Festival International du Film d’Art, Canada

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