Claudie Lévesque

Magie blanche recounts moments in a young girl’s day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th… This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50’ reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.

Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.

Lucid dream of a young fisherman.

An allegory in a long take.

From Saint-Jean Terre-Neuve, a woman leaves phone messages on the voicemail of a mysterious Sabrina… The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival whose rule main task is to shoot a single 50-foot cartridge, without post-image editing.

Two filmmakers exchange impressions of the place and the moment through film-letters, supported by a soundtrack that oscillates between real and immaterial. The sounds then become narration and carry the moving images of an encounter that takes shape according to the 16mm reels that alternate from one to the other.

Magie blanche recounts moments in a young girl’s day, on her 13th birthday, a Friday the 13th… This film was produced as part of the 2nd Montreal Super 8 Festival, whose very simple rule was to shoot a single 50’ reel, with no post-editing. Special effects and editing were therefore created in camera, as the film was being shot.

Memories and reminiscences mark the passage of a young woman to the land of her childhood.

Lucid dream of a young fisherman.

An allegory in a long take.

From Saint-Jean Terre-Neuve, a woman leaves phone messages on the voicemail of a mysterious Sabrina… The Rise and Fall of a Long Distance Relationship was produced as part of the 5th edition of the Montreal Super 8 Festival whose rule main task is to shoot a single 50-foot cartridge, without post-image editing.

Two filmmakers exchange impressions of the place and the moment through film-letters, supported by a soundtrack that oscillates between real and immaterial. The sounds then become narration and carry the moving images of an encounter that takes shape according to the 16mm reels that alternate from one to the other.

A tribute to German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and a nod to Chantal Akerman’s film, One Day Pina Asked, the short Still Pina evokes in its own way a well-known scene from a Pina Bausch choreography, incorporating sign language, and reveals the extent to which the body is a carrier of images and sounds. A film produced as part of a commission for works by IFCO.

Dorothy’s Shoes uses the epistolary mode to reveal the intimate utopia of a woman who invents several characters for herself. Jacqueline Demers, then Karol Baker and finally Kirick, come to life and span the ages through Dorothy’s imagination. Produced as part of Correspondances d’Eastman, in 2005.

The youngest of 17 children, the filmmaker presents us with an intimate family portrait in 17 rolls of Super 8. Through original films and carefully constructed archives, the members of one family recount the events surrounding the death of the oldest brother and share their beliefs on life after death, into which is woven a parallel experience just as haunting to the director.