After a world premiere at the highly selective TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), my second feature COYOTE just received two awards at the charming Whistler Film Festival: the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature (their highest prize), and the Borsos Award for Best Performance for Jorge Martinez Colorado!! You can watch the film online across Canada (except Quebec) […]
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Fiction, 89 min. 2022 (French, Spanish) A cook in his heyday, Camilo is now a worn-out fifty-year-old who works for a cleaning company. We can guess a personal failure in the past of this solitary Mexican living in Montreal. However, Camilo wants to get back on track and an opportunity to recover his culinary passion […]
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Essay fiction, 18 min., 2020 Written, directed and produced by Katherine Jerkovic Cast: Maxime Dumontier, Eloïsa Cervantes, Pablo Diconca, Julie Duchastel Cinematography: Léna Mill-Reuillard Art Direction: Louise Marie Beauchamps Editing: Sophie Farkas Bolla Sound engineering & design: Bruno Pucella Music: David Drury Created thanks to the support of Canada Council for the Arts and NFB […]
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As part of Canada’s TOP TEN, Roads in February will play in Toronto starting July 19th, 2019. I’ll be attending the Saturday July 20th screening for a Q&A. Check out the TIFF Lightbox schedule. Best Canadian First Feature Film (Toronto International Film Festival) “One to Watch” Award for best emerging director (Vancouver Film Critics Circle – […]
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>> Leer en español Fiction, 84 min. 2018 Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the place of origin and that village of old people forgotten […]
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Ficción, 84 min., 2018 Sara acaba de aterrizar en Montevideo. En su valija, trae una vieja libreta de direcciones y una máquina de fotos nueva. Al día siguiente, Sara toma un bus interurbano que la deja en una estación de servicio en la ruta. Allí pasa – o al menos pasaba – el campesino que […]
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Fiction, 17 min. 2010 Edgar, a lonely and socially awkward immigrant takes care of an apartment for a friend away on vacation. As he visits, he becomes familiar with the absent woman’s intimate space. He begins to desire her and anticipate her return. The months go by, the mail piles up and eventually, reality sinks […]
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Video installation, 11 min. loop, silent, 2007 A wall projection of two silent video channels mounted side by side, BLEUI (Middle Sky) revolves around the notion of film cut by exploring the formal, spatial and temporal resonances which determine the beauty, fluidity or rupture of a cut between two shots. Exhibitions Espace Vidéographe, 2008 Galerie FoFA […]
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Art video, 10 min., 2006 First work of a 4 part Series of audiovisual essays on migration and the coast. Shot on the North Coast of Saint-Lawrence River (Québec). The threes other works of the series are : A Time to Dwell # 2 (5 min. video, silent, 2005); Santitre / Whitoutitle (2:20 min. film 16mm, 2006); le […]
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Art video, 6 min., 2004 Long take of a ship leaving the harbour. (Or crossing from Montevideo to Buenos Aires for the twentieth time) Screenings Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, 2005 Presented when invited as guest artist at the MEC cultural centre (Ministerio de educación y cultura), Uruguay, 2006 “Concentrado video” program at the MEC cultural […]
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