Films catalogue

Return to the list
Watch Buy
IMDB TMDB LETTERBOXD

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

Trailer

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

Photos

Living Vocalities - David B. Ricard - 2018
Living Vocalities - David B. Ricard - 2018

These films might also interest you

In production

Cardboard City

X

Cardboard City

André Forcier et Jean-Marc E. Roy
An ode to Ville Jacques-Cartier
Documentaire, Docufiction 80 min. 202X
See the description
In production

The Blueberry Blues

X

The Blueberry Blues

Andres Livov
Amidst wildfires and a fleeting blueberry harvest, workers in northern Quebec find comfort in music and camaraderie as they race against the frost.
Documentaire 80 min.
See the description
Available

November

X

November

Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier & Karine van Ameringen
November is a unique fascinating experience bringing together people living and working in the city of Montreal, in this no man's land between colorful autumn and white winter.
Documentaire 94 min.
See the description Watch
Available Free

The Left Hand

X

The Left Hand

Maxime Robin
Young Maxime’s mother starts worrying about him when his 2nd grade teacher declares him “abnormal”.
Fiction 13 min. 2022
See the description Watch
Available

Upwelling

X

Upwelling

Hugo Latulippe
Twenty young performers brought together for a creation lab strive to tap into the spirit of the times by scouring contemporary Québécois poetry. When, to everyone’s amazement, one of theirs is elected to Quebec’s National Assembly, poetry becomes an integral part of the country’s political landscap(...)
Documentaire 88 min. 2022
See the description Watch
Available

The Act of Beauty

X

The Act of Beauty

Nicolas Paquet
Author and farmer, Jean Bédard fights to see a new, more humane world, rise, with the community of the farm Sageterre.
Documentaire 68 min. 2021
See the description Watch
Available Free

Parvis

X

Parvis

Laurence Gagné-Frégeau
Parvis​ is this special place where things shift to something very grand.
Fiction 12 min. 2021
See the description Watch
Available Free

Matin Ecchymose

X

Matin Ecchymose

Emilie Peltier
Queer poetry in French and Quebec Sign Language in an emblematic and luminous place in Quebec City.
Experimental 7 min. 2020
See the description Watch
BECOME A MEMBER

Spira is your coop devoted to independent filmmaking.
Become a member today!