L’angoisse du héron

Seated in his kitchen, Quebec novelist Gaétan Soucy, who died in 2013, recounts the circumstances and intimate dramas that led him to write. In parallel, unusual scenes unfold: a man records his thoughts about a missing friend, two “madmen” engage in a curious duel in the common room of a decrepit hospital… Little by little, these seemingly unrelated worlds converge to form a baroque, maze-like picture that dissolves the boundaries between reality and fiction. A film in the form of a eulogy, offering a meditation on grief, legacy, friendship, and artistic creation.

Preceded by:

RYAN by Chris Landreth
2024 | Animation | 14 minutes

LA THÉORIE LAUZON by Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre
2022 | Fiction, animation | 15 minutes