Saguenay international
short film festival

Photographic Shorts: Image Huntsmen

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.

Screenings
Length : 02H00
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