For its fourth edition, the NFB’s 5 Shorts Project shines a spotlight on the talent of independent artists from the Bas-Saint-Laurent! Watch the four short documentaries produced in partnership with the Paralœil production centre in Rimouski.
The 2020 short films showcase the works of eight creators who are active participants in the local artistic community. Each of the four films was created by a filmmaker-sound artist duo: Attuned (Steve Verreault and Sébastien Dave Tremblay), Mounds (Nicolas Paquet and Tom Jacques), It’ll Be Nice Out Tomorrow (Guillaume Lévesque and Antoine Létourneau-Berger) and Night Fair (Cynthia Naggar and Gueze). Carrying the magic that emerges from this artistic synergy, these short documentaries give a special place to the power of sound and the present moment. With four distinct aesthetic approaches, they express the influence of nature, machines, weather and dreams on our daily lives.
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Rich in meditations on the benefits of being in nature, this short film meticulously gives voice to the whispers of the forest heard during an observation walk with the naturalist photographer and biologist Hugues Deglaire.
A film by Steve Verreault and Sébastien Dave Tremblay
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Focused on speech and its poetry, this film demonstrates how the weather – uncontrollable and omnipresent in our daily conversations – permeates our collective imagination.
A film by Guillaume Lévesque and Antoine Létourneau-Berger
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Scored by a dramatic soundtrack composed with invented instruments, Mounds stages the monumental dance of the peat vacuum harvester, a gigantic industrial machine conceived in Rivière-du-Loup.
A film by Nicolas Paquet and Tom Jacques
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Unique alliance of art and science, this experimental film explores brain activity through the different cycles of a night’s sleep, using collected dreams and anonymous medical data.
A film by Cynthia Naggar and Gueze
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Paralœil
Active since 1999 in Rimouski and throughout the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, Paralœil is a creation and distribution centre founded on the view of cinema as a tool for community gathering and emancipation. The only video and cinema broadcasting and production center in Quebec, it rents out equipment, sustains film culture by offering diversified programming and collaborates on several broadcasting initiatives in the region. Directed by Valérie Mongrain, the organization brings together Distribution Paralœil and the production company Par’ici.
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