Entries for September 2010

Twelve short fragments reveal the often abrupt and always confrontational aspect of personal relationships. Played out as television ads, these situations are steeped in an atmosphere where reality remains complacently unattainable.   ±

Way beneath any instinct or will, characters get involved in relational prototypes with frenzy or even fierceness. Emptied of any emotion, their world make all wanderings possible. They invent their very own ruin by reproducing relationship failure. They make faces, convulse, train flies. One would believe that is either a mania or a game but it might as well be worse.   ±

In this essay about teaching future police officers at the police academy at Nicolet, the process is seen as fabricating individuals with conformist attitudes and pre-determined reflexes. The steps involved when young men join the police are captured by various camera angles.   ±

The television footage of a wrestling match is employed here as a metaphor for Quebec society. Using voice-over narration, Falardeau presents a compelling analysis of the structure of wrestling and its rituals. The good guy against the evil antagonist, the forces of order and the desires of the crowd.   ±