Ma famille en 17 bobines

Claudie Lévesque
Canada | 2011 | 27 min
Language : French
Subtitle : English

Québec. Super 8 footage. Fragments of an ordinary life connected by silence and by voices. The voices speak of life and death, material things and spirituality, immanence and transcendence. The silence is the silence of the countryside, but also of repressed memories, things left unsaid, secret things which go on between the two states of mankind, nature and nurture.

Quebec landscapes , animals in the fields, men at work, hunting scenes, families  captured in the joy of a wedding or the cold grief of a funeral: fragments of an ordinary life connected by silence and by voices. The voices speak of life and death, material things and spirituality, immanence and transcendence. They say: “We come from somewhere and we are going somewhere: life cannot be death.” The silence is the silence of the countryside, but also of repressed memories, things left unsaid, the secret things which occur between the two states of mankind, nature and nurture. The amateur sequences follow one another in free association, like the flow of memory, putting words and things seen at the very heart of the human condition. “The 8mm and Super 8 images belong to our family archive, as do those I have shot in the same formats. The 17 reels from which they are taken correspond to the number of children my mother brought into the world” (CL).

Luciano Barisone

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