LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES
SHORT FILMS

COMPÉTITION LES NOUVEAUX ALCHIMISTES 5
11 films, 78 minutes

"LE LONG CRI DU TRAIN QUI PASSE SE GLISSE AU CŒUR DES SPECTRES ET TOUT EXPLOSE EN SILENCE" by Anne-Marie Bouchard

Quebec/Canada | without words | 8 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

A single sound recording that evokes travel, the need to communicate, solitude, fragility, the desire for freedom, the arrival of fall, and our ephemeral existence.

"FORWARDS, BACKWARDS" by Mitchell Stafiej

Quebec/Canada | without words | 5 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Illusory visual and sonic reflection on a stagnant film career – both moving forwards and backwards, and not at all; driving 100mph yet standing still.

"LÈVRES BLEUES" by Philippe Hamelin

Quebec/Canada | original French version/English subtitles | 9 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

A collection of strangers’ dating site testimonies rekindles memories of love using computer-generated images.

"LE SILENCE A DISPARU" by Sarah Seené

Quebec/Canada | original French version/English subtitles | 3 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

A self-portrait shot in Super8 depicting the sensorial chaos of living with permanent tinnitus as infinite waves.

"LA MARCHE" by Yoakim Bélanger

Quebec/Canada | without words | 5 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Women emerge from the shadows and together, walk towards a light. Guided by instinct, they will face and transcend their own limits.

"TERRESTRES" by Normand Rajotte

Quebec/Canada | without words | 10 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Killed by coyotes, a deer lies in a pine grove. Over the period of a year, two surveillance cameras document what happens next.

"MARCEL BROODTHAERS EN CONVERSATION AVEC HIDEAKI ANNO ET AKHENATON" by Julie Tremble

 

Quebec/Canada | original French version | 6 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

The pharaoh’s body deforms and the landscape is animated by light beams taken from the apocalyptic and philosophical work of Hideaki Anno, Neon Genesis Evangelion.

"GRAND-MAMAN PIANO" by Guillaume Vallée

Quebec/Canada | original French version/English subtitles | 5 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Questioning the emotion of faded moments through audiovisual memory. An autobiographical film on the last moments of Hélène Lamoureux, the director’s recently deceased grandmother.

"BARCELONA BURNING" by Theodore Ushev

Quebec/Canada, Espagne | original Catalan version | 5 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Hot wax painting on a Barcelona directory; a palimpsest reflecting the violence and madness of the riots that shocked Spain in October 2019.

"DRINK SOME DARKNESS" by Trevor Mowchun

Manitoba/Canada, United States | originale English version/French subtitles | 11 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

Door number one. Door number two... Door number three! A sentient light performs an elegy.

"MR. CARREAUX" by Marie-Hélène Turcotte

Quebec/Canada | original French version/English subtitles | 18 min
Available at The Imperial & online
Monday, October 12th at 5.15 PM: Buy a ticket for Compétition Les nouveaux alchimistes 5

A winter tale: the real experience of an imagined love.

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