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Blurred Trees
Synopsis
Two incarcerated women in a secured forest of the North of Quebec are subjected to hard labour of reforestation. Confronted to their body’s instrumentalisation and its underhand control, they enjoy a little area of freedom they managed to create thanks to a prison guard particularly empathetic towards them.
Cast & Crew
- Screenplay, editor : Fanny Perreault
- Cinematographer : Claudia Kedney-Bolduc
- Sound : Alexandre Laberge
- Artistic director : Pier-Ann St-Jean
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Biography
Fanny Perreault has lived in Quebec City for 32 years. After studying film, literature and design, she is pursuing a career as a multimedia specialist. She directed Canicule in 2019 and will present her second short film, Blurred Trees (Le flou des arbres), in 2024.
Festivals
- 2024 -
Festival REGARD, Chicoutimi, Québec
Fantasia, Montréal, Québec
Festifilm de la Beauce, Saint-Séverin, Québec
SIWFF - Seoul International Women's Film Festival, Seoul, Corée du Sud
Kerry International Film Festival, Killarney, Irlande
San Jose International Short Film Festival, San Jose, USA
Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK
Festival international du cinéma francophone en Acadie (FICFA), Moncton, Canada
Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Australie
Festival Chéries-Chéris, Paris, France
Image+nation Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest, Montréal, Québec | Grand prix du jury
Ljubljana LGBT Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovénie
- 2025 -
Pink Life QueerFest, Ankara, Turquie
Des Images Aux Mots (festival de cinéma LGBTQI de Toulouse), Toulouse, France
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Québec
Leeds Queer Film Festival , Leeds, UK
Porto Femme, Porto, Portugal
Poppy Jasper International Film Festival, Morgan Hill, USA
Lovers Film Festival, Turin, Italie
IMAGINARIA International Film Festival, Rome, Italie
Francophone Short Films in Harlem NYC, NYC, USA
Lesbian Quarter Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovénie
Director's statement
My cinema is about remoteness as a space where the desire to connect to others and live differently is growing.
In The Blurring of Trees, I approach remoteness through incarceration and forced labour. I place the characters deep into the woods, into an insidious surveillance system. To escape from an unbearable day to day, the protagonists enjoy a rare system fail, the empathy of a prison guard, to create a space of liberty into which it becomes possible to reappropriate their own body and connect to others.
In a world more and more coded and structured, I believe in the necessity to create a space where the human being finds itself momentarily away from the rules. A demarcated space of rebellion that allows resilience and restricts violence.
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