HDV PAL 16:9 tone color - 40 minutes - 2010
This film is a shift in both time and space built around the meeting the artist and Quebecois who, by force or by choice were exiled to find work, a better life. Evidence, souvenir photos, travel images, sound files fit together to create a hybrid object which intersect the universal issues related to migration, territory, habitat but also to the memory.
The beginning of the film is a long journey made by the artist on board a small cargo along the north shore of Quebec, the road to stop the city from Natashquan to Blanc Sablon on the border of Labrador. A barren landscape scrolls slowly by rhythmic activity of the workers during the stopovers. Throughout the trip, we discover some passenger-Innu communities local residents. The soundtrack superimposes the testimonies of former residents of the town of Gagnon, a city, further inland. This city was completely destroyed in 1985 after the closure of its unique economic hub: an iron mine.
Witnesses interviewed by the artist evoke the ideal life in this place yet hostile to the man, very isolated, very cold in winter and summer insect infested. They describe the reasons for their exile, the organization of community life and lived after tearing closure of the city. They tell of the fascination still on them here now, after his disappearance 25 years ago, a science fiction setting.
Exhibition:
Comeback
September 17 - October 31, 2010
Opening: Friday, September 17, 20 am
http://www.kh-do.de/en/exhibitions/ exhibitions2010/comeback_en.html
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