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A Heady Moment That Could Change Everything

Anne-Marie Bouchard / 2016 / 15 min. / Canada/France / FRENCH / SUBS ENGLISH

Synopsis

While cycle touring in Normandy, a young French Canadian girl makes a striking encounter.

Cast & Crew

Direction and Screenplay : Anne-Marie Bouchard
Direction of photography : Thomas Jacquet
Editing : Anne-Marie Bouchard
Sound : Pierre Bézard
Music : Maxence Debacker
Mixing sound : Pierre-Olivier Roy
Artistic direction : Lucile Bossuet-Jacquet
Production : Émilie Moreault et Samuel Prat (Off-Courts); Catherine Benoit (Spira)

Genre

Fiction

Topics

Women and feminism, Initiation story, Sexuality, Travel

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Biography

Anne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Quebec City. She has been making videos since 1999 and has been creating installations since 2001. She works from collecting images, sounds, recovered materials and various data. Since electronic materials and programming software are accessible, she has been happy to experiment with them to experiment even more with color, movement and noise. His videographic works have been presented at festivals such as: Traverse Vidéo de Toulouse, Chicago International Film and Film Film Festival, International Film Festival Ireland (Clonmel, Ireland), International Film Festival on Art (FIFA, Montreal), Les Instants Vidéo of Marseille (France), Cinema on the Bayou (Louisiana) and San Diego Underground Film Festival (California). His installations have been presented in situ and in galleries such as: CRANE Lab (France), Studio XX (Montreal), Grave (Victoriaville), Galerie WARC (Toronto), as well as the Vidéographe Gallery (Montreal).

Festivals

- 2016 -
Special Screening | Off Courts, France
Special Screening | Court Spira Court, Canada

- 2017 -
In Competition | Gimli Film Festival, Canada

- 2018 -
In Competition | Cinema on the Bayou, USA

Festivals

Short film made as part of the Import/Export project (collaboration of Spira, Québec, and the Off-Courts festival of Trouville, France).

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