L'Itinéraire du texte / Improvisation sur le texte
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An bizarre and audacious pedagogical exercise reuniting 10 000 students from elementary and secondary schools from the Beauce and Lévis regions to write the longest text in the world. It was also a "Land Art" textual performance by Jean-Yves Fréchette, where the artist unrolled a 4 inch-wide, yellow, text-printed bio-degradable ribbon over 160 km between Jackman, Maine and Lévis, QC, along Kennedy highway (173 north). And finally, a "subjective documentary" outlining this project's logistic, poetic and performative aspects.

Awards and mentions
Deux étoiles
Festival canadien international du film d'amateur
Canada
1985
1985
Canada
26:00
Original language
French

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Credits

Direction
Jean Gagnon
Conception
Jean-Yves Fréchette
Photography
Jean Gagnon
Editing
Jean Gagnon
Sound
Yves Doyon
Sound Design
Paul Gauvin
Music
Robert Millette
Yves Gariépy
Jean Elliot Manning
Production
Centrale textuelle de St-Ubald
G.R.A.A.V.

Technical information

Color
Color
Image format
4:3
Keywords
Experiment, Education, Childhood, Writing, Text, Paper

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