Ride of a cell phone at the lake of the Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, having a rendez-vous with someone dressed in blue and wearing glasses. Where are you? Do you see me?
Images and sound recorded by a cell phone.
This film doesn't leave spectators indifferent. It presents the story of a lonely man, in his forties, waiting for his welfare cheque in order to enjoy life. This short film lets the viewer see the life of a lonely man that is not so different from our own.
Borrowing images from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, lefave revisits one of the most famous murder scenes in film history. In this case however, the search is for the absent female body. Is the female gaze dead?
00:00:15;00 is an experimental video based on 15 seconds of footage which has been processed and repeated 15 times. This structure is intended to mirror the processes of repetition and rehearsal, which are part of memory. Words appear out of an abstract landscape hovering for a moment on the verge of disappearance. Failure and breakdown are also part of the structure as the image flashes, rolls and disintegrates between each repetition. Original sound based on noise and tone generated in Metasynth and Protools amplifies the feeling of repetition and imperfection.
A woman is walking down the street on a cold winter morning when she stops, closes her eyes, and remains immobile for the duration of the day. The world continues around her, people and cars pass, some stop, including the police, but she remains, eyes closed, yet present and unmoving. We witness her stillness in opposition to the movement of the day around her during her 12 hour period of action/non-action.
Thirteen paintings form a framework. The works vary in length from one minute to three minutes thirty seconds. Grouped together as an album, these short videos are sketches of paintings, reviewed and reajusted for the camera. They follow one another - sometimes fixed, sometimes mobile - like the pages of an uncompleted encyclopedia. Where the images terminate, the subject matter becomes unstable. Where the eye is fixed, forms move. A frame holds them in... painting or video?