
Here, we meander between two artistic mediums, film and photography. One filmmaker
employs fascination for photo with Tibetan farmers and adds magic to the first motion
pictures from the time of Méliès. The next, cigarette precariously hanging from his
mouth, freeze-frames the precise moment when his life was devastated by fire. Using
period photographs and archival footage, filmmaker Kara Blake recreates the career
of two Argentinean dancers from the 1920’s. Photojournalists François Pesant and
Édouard Plante-Fréchette finally have the chance through video to deepen their
photographic research regarding the homeless and their plight.
Through each masterpiece, photography is the one common de-film-inator of the story.
One cannot distinguish which of the two mediums dominates the other. Both means of
expression intersect and complement each other harmoniously while exploring an out
of the ordinary method for capturing images on film.
