Homegrown cinema
Le fond de l’air (White Noise) is a hard-hitting auteur work that plunges viewers into a direct physical encounter with the information overload of daily life. A hybrid of documentary, experimental film and fiction, this disturbing roller coaster of a movie transforms the imminent collapse of our civilization into a visceral aesthetic experience.
WARNING: STROBOSCOPIC EFFECTS
At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our collective memory.
This documentary film immerses us in the personal experience of the filmmaker and his sister, who want to ensure that their mother ends her days with dignity in the CHSLD system. In the maze of this incredible ordeal, Desjardins casts a very tender eye on his mother.
Through the amateur films he has collected, a filmmaker looks back on his turbulent life. In these fragile, funny and moving images, snippets of past stories and emotions, he sees his own history and that of his family, marked by an obsession with cinema and sex.
