Assistant Director of Photography
In his description of planet Tlön, Borges describes the Tlönite as people who believe that every man is in fact two men, arguing that when we sleep, we are awake elsewhere.
Cinematography
Three groups of adolescent girl friends from Quebec are going through tough changes. The process of inventing their own bodies and identity are being recorded on the move by their smartphones and shared with their peers from other parts of the networked world. Due to their strong need of external confirmation, they alter their lives into a series of retouched pictures and videos. The film camera, however, captures their feelings of void, loneliness and deep inner insecurities that are not so attractive for Periscope, TikTok or Instagram. An intimate portrait of adolescence is made with full comprehension of experiencing and self-presentation in a generation growing up on the brink of the real and virtual worlds.
Director
This short film tells the story of a meeting between two neighbours, in Ahuntsic and Villeray, around memories of Portugal; it is a story of two very different cities, Montreal and Lisbon; of an old man who has come to terms with death; of two strangers separated by an ocean but connected by the flight of a homing pigeon. Birds are the guides for this poetic meandering, exploring memories of the past and portents of the future. A dissonant score accompanies a split screen, completing the impression that we are confronted with a sensory puzzle, at once natural and urban, in which meditation takes its cues from fragments of reality. Matthew Wolkow’s film is a gentle ornithological, human and floral tale, suffused with both hope and the grim anxieties of our time. (Apolline Caron-Ottavi)
Director
Exterior. Day. Montreal / On the outskirts of the metropolitan highway, there is a Mediterranean fig tree / Named Ficus carica, this tree is the work of a 60-year-old Montrealer of Argentine origin / The miracle of a backyard where three regions of the world meet / The story of an observation.
Director
"A l likeness is a gift... it avoids... or confuses time if your prefer." said John Berger. Following this premise, 81.92 is a structuralist inquiry into the notion of presence and absence as it reveals archival radio broadcasts from former Montreal radio host Mike Wolkow. The former (the audible) is left invisible while the later (the visible) seeks to find the missing elements that trace the passage of this vocal presence. Past and present interplay in this piece that shifts between epochs, thus mimicking a radio signal that is being tuned in.
Director
Beginning at the Doors of Hell, on the Path of the Burned, this tale follows a meeting between an entomologist, a curious mind and a tiger, also known as Papilio canadensis or Canadian tiger swallowtail.
Director
Montreal... a museum... a garage... Chile... Muchas Cosas Juntas... Plusieurs choses ensemble... Many things together...
