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Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
Annie MacDonell, Mäider Fortuné
Cast:
Madelyne Beckles, Deragh Campbell, Fiona Reid
Cinematography:
Iris Ng, Claire Harvey, Annie MacDonell, Maider Fortuné
Editing:
Annie MacDonell, Mäider Fortune
Sound:
Julia Wittman, Polina Teif
Producer:
Maïder Fortuné, Annie MacDonell
Based on the works by Dennis Oppenheim, Lygia Clark and Joan Jonas, the film recounts the experience of an experimental film teacher with a female student, interested in performing for the camera. A sweet voice describes and analyzes the result of the exercises, going through a critical history of the beginnings of video performance. Everything becomes more complex when the gestures themselves become a sophisticated metaphor for interpersonal relationships, the teaching of the arts, parenting, alterity and the very act of seeing and …of being. (Ricardo Vieira Lisboa)
Director:
MÄIDER FORTUNE studied literature and theatre before entering Le Fresnoy, where she developed a performance-related practice of the technological image. With its great formal rigor, Fortuné’s work commands all the viewer’s attention for a genuine experience of the image and its processes. Recently, her practice turned to more narrative preoccupations. Lecture performances and films deeply rooted in writing are the mediums she processes to open up new narrative strategies. Her work has been exhibited în galleries, museums, and at festivals in numerous countries.
ANNIE MACDONELL is a visual artist. Her practice begins from the photographic impulse to frame and capture, and is concerned with the production and circulation of images in the present moment. Her work includes film, installation, sculpture, performance and writing in addition to photography and was presented internationally. In 2019, her films have screened at TIFF Toronto and the Viennale. In 2012 she was short-listed for the AGO AMIA prize for photography, and she was long listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2012, 2015 and 2016. She received a BFA from Ryerson University in 2000, followed by graduate studies at Le Fresnoy. She is a founding member of Emilia Amalia, a feminist research and writing group. She is an assistant professor at Ryerson University and lives in Toronto with her family.
Contact:
THIRD HORIZON
Festivals, awards:
Ammodo Tiger Award - Rotterdam Film Festival 2020 / Main Award - Moscow International Experimental Film Festival 2020 / Indie Lisboa Festival, 2020 / F.I.D Festival International de Documentaire de Marseille, 2020 / Black Canvas International Film Festival, Mexico 2020
“In 2015, ANNIE and I produced a reading/performance about our schooling years spent in Le Fresnoy, a sort of sharp mural painting coming back to the paradox of this luxurious studying place at the heart of the rough town of Roubaix. This time, we felt like extending this autobiographical and collaborative adventure by taking as fieldwork our present time, namely what no longer belonged to the students but had become a part of the teachers’, mothers’ and artists’ experience by the age of forty. It seemed to us that this age offered an especially rich temporal position, an unprecedented connection/circulation between past, present and future. Many other kinds of circulation were added to it: the one about the stories ANNIE and I have been handing over to the next generation for years; the one about films and works we were fascinated by, and continued to be so; the one about our exchanges with students in our respective schools but also the one about the film image and the voice, words and sounds… At that time, the one image bringing the communicating vessels together appeared.” (MAÏDER FORTUNÉ, FID Marseille interview)