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Derisory Expedition 1
Comprised of works hand-picked by members of the Vidéographe team, video of the month explores Vidéographe's vast collection and offers insight into the team behind the centre. New month, new video.
After several years of film studies at Concordia University, Mathilde Fauteux has been working in the arts and film industry for over three years. Notably, she worked as part of the short film programming team at Festival du nouveau cinéma. As Distribution Coordinator at Vidéographe, Mathilde is looking forward to pursuing her passion for new talent and new forms of expression.
Synopsis
Expédition dérisoire (Derisory Expedition) is a series of scenes wherein minute contemporary problems of organization, communication and progress are put into simplified situations. Theatrical action is stripped bare. Geographical orientation is irretrievably lost. Nothing remains but a vast, depthless, white desert; the clear void. It is like after a cataclysm; the characters, objects, and ways of constructing try to come together, to build, once again, a new system, to establish an uneven order of distribution, and to produce relations which seem to take the form of a warning. Expédition dérisoire 1 is the first of three parts in a series comprised of nearly thirty chapters. The chapters compose a matter in which we see a cardboard world, a devilish machine, a man attacked by highways, disappointments, ergonomy lessons and a number of situations underlining in a certain way the failure of sense, all intersect.
A word from the team
“Expédition dérisoire 1” is the first volume of a trilogy of videos that seeks to reflect on the (larger) little problems of life. Through role-playing scenarios, reenactments, tutorials, and theatrical performances, Pascal Grandmaison and his troupe attempt to solve these problems, pushing the exercise to the limits of the absurd.
In this first expedition, we get to contemplate, among other things, what lies behind a rock, or even the proper reaction to a fall. As the name suggests, the desire to laugh and play things down takes center stage, and yet we find something that constantly reminds us of the discomforts that punctuate life. This tonal duality, though sometimes at odds with itself, ultimately serves to celebrate the joy and pleasure of creating together.
Fundamentally artisanal, from its stop-motion animations to its cardboard towers, this expedition leaves us longing to inject playfulness into the everyday.
Mathilde Fauteux
Distribution Coordinator
