Doclisboa wants to question the present of film, bringing along its history and assuming cinema as a mode of freedom. By refusing the categorization of film practice, it searches for the new problematics that cinematic image implies, in its multiple ways of engagement with the contemporary.
Doclisboa tries to be a place to imagine reality through new modes of perception, reflection, and possible new forms of action.
Where is America?
The idea of “America”: where do myth, violence and colonial history fit? Are they reflected in the territory and behaviours? Preceded by Hébert’s animation and Gagnon’s editing of ready-made videos, Chabot’s film is a road movie from Quebec to the US.
Voyage en Amérique avec un cheval emprunté
Jean Chabot
1987 • Canada • 59’
RIP in Pieces America
Dominic Gagnon
2009 • Canada • 60’
Songs and Dances of the Inanimate World: The Subway
Chants et danses du monde inanimé – Le métro
Pierre Hébert
1985 • Canada • 15’
