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Exploration of the internet and our current era through YouTube videos. Dominic Gagnon reconstructs the south as seen through vlogs, found footage, video games, raging storms and burning palm trees.
A team of astronauts is launched into space during the pandemic. As the planet takes a pause, its inhabitants share their experiences of COVID-19 and the consequences it might have on their mental health.
Some images, maybe a little bit of music, some people talking with each other, you know what? Just watch it. I didn't yet. Not that I don't want to, but I'm busy you know. School and everything.
Television spare parts follow each other and grow in number on an electronic soundtrack. From an installation made of materials found in the street, this film emphasises the end of an era, that of analogue and passivity, and the beginning of another, that of IT and interactive systems. Like Hal in 2001 A Space Odyssey,television bids farewell.
Images are shown on a screen split into four, while a voice-over fills these spaces with fantasies, with a mix of encyclopaedic culture and visionary intelligence, made of anecdotes, lucid reflections, paranoid obsessions, urban legends, memories of films... Suddenly, the man appears, in medium shot, baseball cap and fake glasses hiding his eyes. He talks about nature and technology, about Star Trek, the Bible, extraterrestrials, artificial intelligence, humanity controlled by higher powers. Although his discourse follows the logic of conspiracy theories, the truth of his solitude emerges.
A large electronics store welcomes vendors and customers. Cameras are there to show that the company’s slogans are not lies. A manipulation transforms the recordings and instils doubt.
“We use the strength of resilience pro- voked by six emotional states: bore- dom, sadness, solitude, anger, disgust and indifference.” The manifesto of the At-Work collective appears onscreen, proclaiming artistic and intellec- tual guerrilla tactics with Situationist aspects: “Work is considered as an experimental field in which conflictual relationships between private utopias, collective necessities and economic realities are at play.”
The filmmaker’s daughter looks at herself on a computer screen, using it like a mirror. She is surprised to see the colour of her lips…A searing indication of the future generation’s relationship with image, fascinated by selfies, the globalised affirmation of its own presence in the world. An intimate short film that summarises the filmmaker’s poetics and cinematic system.
With the screen split into four, clips of films and interviews with ordinary people, the film evokes the media story of Aurore Gagnon, the tragic heroine of a cult Quebec film.
Pre-schoolers are playing in a parc. Time stops and transforms their games into conflicts. 16mm / b&w / sound