Cinema for the Blind


Daniel Canty —2010


Fiction / 19 min / 35 mm / 1.85:1 / colour

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Driven by an image which will not leave him, Philémon takes a room at the Hôtel de la Mer. This unseemly boarding house contains a "cinema for the blind", where the interior drama of the residents is secretly projected. Philémon slips, step by step, into a mute dream, where he attemps to lose sight of himself.

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Ambroise Flipo: Jacques Godin
Philémon Constantin: Sébastien Ricard
Jeanne & Maggie: Évelyne Rompré
Odilon: Noé Cropsal

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Written and directed by: Daniel Canty
Producer: Nancy Grant
Executive producer: Sylvain Corbeil
Director of photography: Mathieu Laverdière
Art directors: Simon Guilbaut & Julie Measroch
Costumes: François Laplante
Editor: Natacha Dufaux
Sound: Patrice LeBlanc
Original score: Alexander MacSween

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Festivals
5th Red Rock International Film Festival, Utah, USA, 2011
Vladivostok International Film Festival, Russie, 2011
D’abord les forêts, opus 2, Aubepierre-sur-Aube, France, 2011
4e Partie de campagne, Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, 2011
64th Yorkton Film Festival, Canada, 2011
29e Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois, Montréal, compétition officielle, 2011
39e Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal, sélection internationale, compétition officielle, 2010

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Distribution
Travelling Distribution
1425 Place de l'Hotel de ville
C.P. 368
Trois-Rivières (QC) G9A 5H3
Canada
T 514-467-8160
Contact
Web site

Photos credit : Yannick Grandmont