Films catalogue
Saline
Synopsis
Formed by visual and sound loops, this work explores organic textures related to images shot in Gaspésie in 1966. My grandfather's nervous camera, combined with his fascination for certain innocuous movements, resonates with my artistic practice. An organic algae-based film creation workshop gave me the pretext to play with these images, allowing me to work with the film in an organic and ecological way, but also playful. The workshop offered by TAIS - Toronto Animated Image Society gave me the excuse and the impetus to create this short experiment. Vladimir Konic imagined during a period of confinement, a method to create and digitize a film made from algae. The textures and colors created with these organic inks and films grabbed me. Their combination with recently digitized family archive images came about naturally. What could be more natural than combining images of Gaspésie with textures of algae? The process combines analog and digital technologies, 8mm film and organic film. The soundtrack comes from unused scraps from other projects.
Cast & Crew
- Cinematographer : Robert Charbonneau
- Editor : Anne-Marie Bouchard
- Sound : Anne-Marie Bouchard
- Sound mix : Anne-Marie Bouchard
- Sound editor : Anne-Marie Bouchard
- Music : Lyne Goulet (Verres et carillons)
- Production : Anne-Marie Bouchard
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Biography
Anne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense, to feel, to be immersed, and to question: her cinema is poetry.
Her work has been shown in festivals like Chicago International Music and Movies Festival, Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois (Montréal), Les Instants Vidéo de Marseille (France), Cinema on the Bayou (Louisiane), San Diego Underground Film Festival, International Film Festival Ireland, Traverse Video (Toulouse, France), Les instants vidéo (Marseille, France), amongst others.
Festivals
- 2022 -
Rencontres Internationales Traverse, Toulouse, France
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogota, Colombie
Courts d'un soir, Montréal, Canada
Les Percéïdes / Grande rencontre des arts médiatiques en Gaspésie, Percé, Canada
Festival de cinéma de la ville de Québec, Canada
Ortometraggi Film Festival, Turin, Italie
DOBRA - Int’l Experimental Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brésil
Darkroom Film Festival, Londres, UK
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg, Canada
ULTRAcinema, Mexico, Mexique
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, Canada
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
Canberra Short Film Festival, Canberra, Australie
Festival tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France | Prix France 3
Alternative Film and Video, Belgrade, Serbie
- 2023 -
Cinema On The Bayou Film Festival, Lafayette, USA
Vues dans la tête... , Rivière-du-Loup, Canada
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Modène, Italie
INTERNATIONALER FOUND FOOTAGE COMPETITION, Dresden, Allemagne
Ann arbor Film festival, Ann Arbor US
Women Media Arts and Film Festival, Australie
Toronto Film Week, Toronto, Canada
Experiments in cinema international (ALUMNI), Albuquerque, USA
International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR, Poznan, Pologne
On art Poland, Varsovie, Pologne
Portobello Film Festival, Londres, UK
20minmax International Short Film Festival Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Allemagne
Strangloscope - Experimental Audio, Video / Film and Performance International Film Festival, Florianópolis, Brésil
Festival du court métrage d'Auch, Auch, France
Director's statement
Experimental video artist, I work with video and film as visual and audio matter. I question the way we are constructed as individuals, the way we grasp and perceive the world through the constant narrative we tell ourselves. Reality has no narrative at first, it is just there - until we, humans, attempt to make sense out of it with language and linearity. I seek to think differently, to express the world through another process. I organize my work in a poetic structure, where I appeal first to the senses, then to the intellectual associations of a non-narrative editing form. My work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it.
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