Films catalogue
Metamorphic Studies
Synopsis
Shot on 16mm film, this experimental work is a series of studies on the relationships between rocky and aqueous materials along the shores of the Saint Lawrence River. A presence weaves through the multiple textures, punctuating these organic micro-atmospheres. Through our porosity to the environment, we embrace an intuitive and sensory dialogue with these subjects, giving free rein to our human subjectivity.
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Biography
As a contemporary dance performer, creator and performer, Nelly enjoys exploring the spectrum of collective creation with versatile artists from a variety of disciplines. So it's only natural that she should collaborate with Quebec's film, theatre, music and performance communities. Through creation, Nelly seeks to tickle the limits of self-transcendence, risk-taking and the raw energy of the body in order to build powerful images. Strongly influenced by cinema and photography, she generally uses a variety of materials to draw the imagination into a universe that is both poetic and strange. Driven by an insatiable thirst for learning and sharing, Nelly sees creation as a political, stimulating and unifying space.
David B. Ricard, an interdisciplinary artist based in Quebec City and a PhD candidate at Université Laval, works with video, theater, dance, cinema, sound art, and performance. His research focuses on intuitive, introspective, and relational creations. He develops improvisation and interaction tools that encourage spontaneous creation and inter- or multidisciplinary exchanges. His ecosophical inclinations lead him to prioritize repurposing, reusing, and revaluing tools considered obsolete. He designs collective and alternative creation methods based on processes that deconstruct hierarchical approaches to languages and roles on stage. Philosophical and emotional reflections, along with an experimental approach to narrative, drive him to create fragmented works rooted in principles of plural dramaturgies.
Festivals
[2025] SODEC Lab, Clermond-Ferrand International Film Festival, France
[2025] Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal (RIDM), Canada
[2026] RVQC, Canada
[2026] Leiden Shorts, Netherlands
[2026] Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico
[2026] Odense International Film Festival, Danemark
[2026] Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec (FCVQ), Canada
Without the tenacity of Elizabeth Crispo (the instigator of the Nous serons des géantes à notre mort project), we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to co-create this work, developing a methodology that combines intuition and know-how.
This first co-creation is part of the development of a specific approach that is both sensitive and experimental. We launched the project in a neo-materialist spirit, in dialogue with the materials involved. We observed the relationship between water and rock and tried to draw inspiration from their interactions to develop a cinematographic point of view on this dialogue.
The disciplines that define the media to which we belong (the art of movement, the art of sound and the art of the moving image) came together to create phrases based on material recorded on 16mm film and digital sound recorders.
