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The Great Thaw

I will be in Graz next week to present The Great Thaw at Diagonale. Festival des österreichischen Films. Come join me in short documentaries program 2 on the 28 at 2pm at KIZ and on the 30 at 4.45 at Schubert 2. Thanks for the invite!

You can watch the big thaw. And listen. The Great Thaw lets the dramatically changing nature of the Arctic regions speak for itself. Permafrost, forests and mountain masses react inexorably. A beautiful symphony in the truest sense of the word about impending doom.

You can watch the great thaw. And listen. Even before the camera flies over the Arctic ice, which is by no means eternal, a creaking sound can be heard on the soundtrack. Is this what the melting of the polar regions sounds like? The first of several text panels referring to the disappearance of polar ice and glaciers puts the beauty of the following images of a snow-covered Arctic landscape in a different light – and therefore makes them something unique.

The Great Thaw allows the dramatically changing nature – vegetation, mountain masses, permafrost – to speak for itself. Pipelines run through green forests in which lakes are forming, new rivers are emerging in depressions in the ground. And suddenly a truck loaded with pipes drives past a scree slope. The sublimity that modern man ascribes to nature does not exist. It has become what he makes of it. And it reacts as a whole. The last text panel belongs to the author and palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday: “We know that change is happening, that we are responsible for it – and what will happen if it continues.” (Michael Pekler)

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IN SITU : Michaela Grill, Philippe Léonard & Simone Provencher

3 December | 19h30 |La Lumière Collective

IN SITU propose des soirées de projection d’œuvres expérimentales et de performances sonores en direct réalisées par des artistes basé-es à Montréal.

PROGRAMME

📽 UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Michaela Grill | 2021 | 16mm vers numérique | 7 mins

📽 O.T./UNTITLED Michaela Grill | 1999 | numérique | 5 mins

📽 CARTE NOIRE Michaela Grill | 2014 | numérique | 2 mins 30 secs

📽 KILVO Michaela Grill | 2004 | numérique | 6 mins

📽 EDGE OF DOOM Michaela Grill | 2020 | 16mm vers numérique | 3 mins

🎶 PERFORMANCE SONORE EN DIRECT PAR SIMONE PROVENCHER | 20 à 30 mins

📽 ROUNDTRIP Philippe Léonard | 2014 | 16mm vers numérique | muet | 3 mins

📽 I I WAS HERE Philippe Léonard | 2014 | 16mm vers numérique | sonore | 5 mins

📽 WORKERS LEAVING THE OFFICE Philippe Léonard | 2013 | 16mm vers numérique | muet | 2 mins

📽 PERCEPTUAL SUBJECTIVITY Philippe Léonard | 2009 | 16mm vers numérique | sonore | 5 mins 30 secs

📽 [T] Philippe Léonard | 2015 | numérique | sonore | 12 mins

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The Great Thaw

will be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Nov 18th at 5pm in the Chile/Iceland/Cryosphere Pavilion. After the screening our scientific collaborator Dr. Jennifer Watts will answers questions together with her colleague Dr. Elchin Jafarov of the Woodwell Climate Research Institute.

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The Great Thaw

will have its world premiere at the Nouveau Cinéma Festival in Montréal in the Nouveau Alchemists competition and screen on Oct 10 at 5pm and on Oct 15 at 7pm at Cinémathèque Quebecois. So exited! Heartfelt thanks to Emilie and the team of FNC.

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Art Sonore à l’Abbaye

Sophie and I will be spending this week in residency at the beautiful Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bon Conseil in St-Benoit Labre and do some experimenation with patterns created directly by soundwaves in water. On Saturday Sept 14 at 7.30pm there will be a performance where we’ll present the result together with the other artists in residence Diane Labrosse and Émilie Payeur and an exhibtion by Tania Bonardo Pellerin. We will also be participating at the round table „La place des femmes dans l’ecosystème de l’art sonore au Québec“.