the month
Le baigneur
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 center. New month, new video.
Alexandra Boilard-Lefebvre is an author and cultural worker who has been active in the Montreal arts scene for nearly twelve years. She has collaborated on the production and creation of numerous projects in theater, cinema, and podcasting. She is the Executive Director of Vidéographe.
Synopsis
Le baigneur is an essay, a poem, an abstraction. Water, movement, outlines, a swimming pool, a child, another child, more fuzzy outlines, sudden movements, two disabled people, a fade to white. There is almost no sound, just a scream and water.
A word from the team
I was first introduced to André-Line Beauparlant’s work through her documentary Trois princesses pour Roland and a week of binge watching followed: in the same way that she returns to the well over and over again – an ever abundant source, as she has long demonstrated – after each viewing, I never felt that I had arrived at the end, or had completely understood all there was to know about her family. A family that offered so much food for thought about my own. And I hadn’t arrived at the end. There was a gap in Beauparlant’s filmography: Le baigneur, an installation work that was impossible to find. You will understand how happy I was when, several years later, the team at Vidéographe acquired this video for its collection in celebration of the artist’s work. Now available to anyone and recently added to the Vithèque platform, Le baigneur is, like all of Beauparlant’s work, a deeply moving film, a succession of raw images filmed with tenderness and without indulgence, a fruitful repetition, a sensitive and meaningful reflection that truthfully reflects the process of living.
Alexandra Boilard-Lefebvre
Executive Director
