Sunday film screenings

Every Sunday during the seventh edition of La Biennale de Montréal 2011 will feature screenings at the Cinéma du Parc site from a selection of sixteen short medium and feature length films dealing with poetry, imagination and the random in the art.

Three of the selection of films pay homage to the Quebec painter Guido Molinari, who died in 2004, with that of director Jo Legare in particular bringing us the artist’s reflections on art and life. Artist Daniel Spoerri will also be in the spotlight, with Laurent Védrine’s "Lunch under the Grass” – a world premiere - giving the public a rare opportunity to rediscover one of his truly unique works: the scene of a banquet organized by Spoerri in 1983 buried, only to be excavated twenty years later. The work of French visual artists will also be highlighted, in Didier Morin’s "In the studio with Jean-Pierre Bertrand" and Manuelle Dalle devotes a film to the work of Gilles Barbier.

The theme of chance prevails in each of the films, for example in Gabriel Lester’s performance or Gyson Brion’s History of the Dream Machine, retold by Nik Sheenan in "Flicker", but perhaps most notably in "Every Revolution is a Crapshoot" by Daniele Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub; a quote borrowed directly from the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé.

The artist John Bock will also present two shorts and a feature film. In "Im Schatten der Made”, shot with professional actors, the German filmmaker lays bare all the different stages of life in a no holds barred exposition of fear, hatred, pain and violence.

Every Sunday from May 2011
at Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Park Avenue