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Immortals

Mark Durand / 2023 / 5 min. / Canada / FRENCH / Canada

Synopsis

Immortals is an experimental documentary short film shot in 8mm that explores the introspection of an artist, Bettina Szabo. The film delves into her relationship with her sense of belonging, her body, her imagination, and nature. Sometimes one must lose oneself to find oneself better, and burn everything down to start anew on a solid foundation.

Cast & Crew

  • Screenplay, editor : Mark Durand, Elizabeth Crispo, Bettina Szabo
  • Cinematographer, Sound editor, Artistic director : Mark Durand
  • Sound : Elizabeth Crispo
  • Sound mix : Mathieu Grégoire
  • Music : Mark Durand, Constantin Grob, DanjFilms & Rodchenko

Genre

Documentaire, Experimental

Topics

Dance, Women and feminism

Trailer

Biography

Festivals

- 2023 -

RIDM, Québec

- 2024 -

Festival REGARD, Québec
Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA
Vues sur mer, Québec
Les Percéides, Québec
Busho Film Festival, Hongrie
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, Bucharest, Roumanie
Bolton International Film Festival, Manchester, UK
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Espagne
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, San Francisco, USA
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, Canada
Wild Dogs International Screendance Festival, Calgary, Alberta
Thessaloniki Cinedance International, Thessalonique, Grece
Girona Film Festival, Girona, Espagne
Silver Wave Film Festival, New Brunswick, Canada
InShadow, Lisbonne, Portugal
Kinoskop - Analog Experimental Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbie
PÖFF Short (Black Nights film Festival), Tallinn, Estonie
Cornwall Film Festival, Cornwall, Angleterre
Lights Dance Film Festival, Seattle, USA 
InShadow, Lisbonne, Portugal
Harkat 16mm FF, Mumbai, India
ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT, Athènes, Grèce

- 2025 - 


Screendance Miami, Miami, USA
Cinema on the Bayou (Vitrine spéciale - currated par Les Percéides), Lafayette, Lousiane
Available Lights, Yukon, Canada
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, Montréal, Canada
Toronto Film Week, Toronto, Canada
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turquie
Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg PA, USA

- 2026 -

Vues dans la tête, Canada 

Director's statement

Immortals is a work which is part of the choreographic project ''We will be giantess when we die'' carried out by the artist Elizabeth Crispo.

Elizabeth initially asked a dance artist, Bettina Szabo, to invite a filmmaker to work with her on a specific premise: In what environment do you evolve without crushing yourself?

The creation of the work was done in collaboration between these two artists, Bettina Szabo and Mark Durand, with great artistic freedom and editorial independence.

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