the month
Horizons
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.
Sarah Foulkes is a filmmaker, cultural worker, and film critic. She is most interested in exploring labour, melodrama, and narrativity through image and sound. In the cultural sector, she’s previously worked at Ada X and Cinema Politica.
Synopsis
Filmed frame by frame, the landscape is deconstructed in a way that makes us lose our sense of reality and continuity. The horizon line becomes our only reference point to create a new motif that is both irrational and contemplative.
A word from the team
Charlie Marois' film is deceptively simple. It's a montage of hundreds (thousands?) of individual shots of horizons across Kamouraska and New Brunswick. Simple. And yet the experience of watching it is transfixing and perception-altering. A feat of editing, the film builds slowly, despite its short runtime. The horizon line, at first, is stable. It slices the frame in half evenly. Then, slowly, the line jumps up and down, making it harder and harder to feel grounded in the earth, or, in this case, in my seat. A new horizon introduces a sense of calm, as horizons tend to do, but the freneticism of the flickering horizons is quick to unsettle.
Horizons’ sound design transforms the work into an immersive experience. The pelagic synth-soundscape by Vincent Turcotte evokes the feeling of watching the landscape rush by through the window of a fast-moving train. The train cuts through the wind as you sit immobile. Looking out, it’s like you’re just passing through – grasping for another look at the horizons so as to feel like you’ve seen this unfamiliar place. Like you’ve actually been there.
Sarah Foulkes
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