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Parades

Alan Lake / 2022 / 16 min. / Canada / FSD / Canada

Synopsis

Enter a world where fantasy and dream combine with the movement of the body, where time stops until rebirth.

Cast & Crew

  • Screenplay : Alan Lake
  • Cinematographer : François Gamache
  • Editor : Jason Arbour
  • Sound : Maxime Vermette
  • Sound mix : Maxime Vermette
  • Sound editor : Antoine Berthiaume
  • Music : Antoine Berthiaume
  • Artistic director : Julie Lévesque
  • Cast : Odile Amélie Peters, Fabien Piché, David Rancourt, Esther Rousseau Morin

Genre

Film de danse

Topics

Dance

Biography

Alan Lake is a performer, choreographer, director and visual artist. He studied visual arts for five years (DEC and BAC in visual arts). He undertakes and obtains his technical DEC in Dance-performance in 2007 at the Quebec Dance School.

Since 2007, Alan Lake has joined the companies: Harold Rhéaume's son, Adrien dances in NU, Jumeaux - a co-creation with the French choreographer Yvann Alexandre - and in the creation: Fluid, all as a performer. He participates in the first Grand Continental of Sylvain Émard Danse. He is an interpreter for Dana Gingras - Animal of Distinction in a video clip of Arcade Fire. It will be Adrian Rheaume’s son next work of the Rheaume White Partitions.

Filmography

  • 2019
    The Embrace of the Valkyries / 16 min.
  • 2015
    Ravages / 22 min.

Festivals

- 2022 - 

FCVQ, Québec, Canada

- 2023 -

FIFA, Montréal, Canada
Cinédanse Caraquet, Caraquet, Nouveau Brunswick
Fantasia, Montréal, Canada
Projection avant le long métrage Dancing Pina, Québec, Canada
Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Thessalonique, Grece
Cornwall Film Festival, Cornwall, UK
NYBA Dance Film Festival, New York, USA
FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, Raleigh, USA
Athens Video Dance Project, Athènes, Grèce

- 2024 - 

Screendance Miami, Miami, Floride
Cinedans - Dance on Screen Festival, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Spring Dancefilm Festival, Barcelone, Espagne
ClujShorts International Short Film Festival, Cluj Napoca, Roumanie | Best Picture
20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Allemagne
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, Morgantown, USA | Best of Show
Queens World Film Festival, New York, USA
The Quarantine Film Festival, Varna, Bulgarie
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Colombie
Encuentro Para Cinéfagos (Festival de CineArte en la Frontera), San Cristóbal, Venezuela | Best dance video and Best art direction
Wild Dogs International Screendance Festival, Calgary, Canada
Mill of Performing Arts, Larissa, Grèce
ADF’s Movies By Movers, Durham, USA
In Shadow, Lisbonne, Portugal

Director's statement

Parades is an initiation to a mysterious pagan festival made of powerful images between fable and allegory. In this living installation populated by four human beings, sometimes chimerical figures, divine silhouettes, or simple mortals, bodies live, intersect, unite and regenerate in an imaginary interrelation. The paintings follow one another in a parade of raw emotions, soaking in the multitude of environments more improbable than the other to transfigure all the sobriety of the immanence of being.

Photos

Parades - Alan Lake - 2022
Parades - Alan Lake - 2022
Parades - Alan Lake - 2022

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