Before We Go
Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique experience which involves music, dance and silence. Their journey becomes a tribute to the fragility of the human condition, between reality and representation, tragedy of the body and freedom of the spirit. Together they question their own relationship with death.
Charm School
Defiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
Azimuth
L'intimité
Clonage
Through vocal play and performance, this work by Alain Pelletier explores the concept of Asexual reproduction.
The Way We Move
Amber Galloway, a trailblazer in ASL interpretation, takes us on a journey into the deep bond between the Deaf world and music. We follow her as she teaches struggling recruits who she hopes will have what it takes to join her at ACL music festival.
Doris
Produced in the fall of '98 as part of a video-dance internship offered to choreographers by PRIM and Circuit Est, Doris is a study of banality : a woman tries desperately to sit on an inflateable footstool in an attempt to stop time. Doris is a metaphor for our imposing solitude which nevertheless manages to bring out a charming naïvety.
Shells
Margot enjoys life pleasures: eating, drinking, smoking, dressing in nice clothes. However, when her proposal for an advertising campaign is rejected, she becomes aware of how lonely she feels. Then Anna stands at her door. Anna was sent by the health insurance to make Margot lose weight. Every evening Anna prepares a healthy, light dinner for Margot. Margot is gradually overcomes her aversion towards Anna, who keeps her company during their dinners. A fine and fragile friendship develops. Yet, when Margot gains weight again, the insurance orders Anna to end the mission. At their last dinner, their friendship is put to the test and secrets are unveiled.
Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts
Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations On the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imaginary unconscious minds of animals. Images of sex, death and the natural world are made manifest in the murky and disquieting dreams of a dog, a cat, a pig and a rabbit.
This is
The arms move frenetically, become intermingled. Then they reduce. An imperceptible shape appears. Nevertheless there is only one body simply trying to collect one's thoughts.
Superstar
Transmutation
A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
Faux fluides
Faux fluides is a eclectic story of the quest for one's identity. Through a collage of texts by Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett, this video cynically pursues and dismantles the Freudian theory of self. "There is a reserve of fluids somewhere in me which releases false liquids, believing to have modelled for me an eternal, internal body. It is, however, non-fluid beings who have assembled them, in order to dip into them."
Channel
The material of the piece is a found image—a photograph shot on a film positive in the 1950s, with faded colors and a scratched surface. The work directs the gaze away from the subject matter of the photograph and focuses intently on the edges of the image. It hovers beside the subject, looks past it, while a new image is created.
Poison Sangga: The Homewrecker's Curse
Soon after getting married, couple Maya and Andi begin to experience eerie disturbances from unseen malevolent forces.
Is There Anybody Out There?
While navigating daily discrimination, a filmmaker who inhabits and loves her unusual body searches the world for another person like her, and explores what it takes to love oneself fiercely despite the pervasiveness of ableism.
Dust
The film follows the journey of the body and belongings of a recently deceased lonely person.
Freak
Ahead of the upcoming swimming competition, 11-year-old Ziggy discovers something that's happening to his body. A transformation that makes him want to hide.
Barreras
"Barriers" is a documentary in which three women over 60 and a group of young women participate in a game that exposes the prejudices surrounding sexuality in later life. Through these letters, the young women ask the older women about their intimate lives. This creates a space that sheds light on both the taboos and the discomfort that persist around the topic. A space open to silence and deep conversations. At the same time, we discover the stories that characterize these social figures.
Assim
A morning in the lives of two transsexual women in Manaus, Brazil.