More NFB films selected to screen at the festival, including the short Quiet Zone in competition. NFB also taking part in Doc Circuit Montréal
News Release
October 22, 2015 – Montreal – National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Three more National Film Board of Canada (NFB) films will be joining the lineup of this year’s Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM): Quiet Zone (NFB), a short film by Karl Lemieux and David Bryant, screening in competition; Mark Lewis’s feature film Invention (Mark Lewis Studio/NFB/Soda Film + Art), screening as a special presentation; and Arthur Lipsett’s classic 21-87 (NFB), which will screen in a retrospective program entitled “A Photographer’s Eye.”
In the international short film competition, Quiet Zone by Godspeed You! Black Emperor band members Karl Lemieux and David Bryant returns to Montreal after a world premiere in Rotterdam, numerous screenings on the festival circuit (including in Leipzig, Edinburgh, Tokyo, Bucharest and Zurich) and a Canadian premiere in competition at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Invention, which will be presented at RIDM as a special screening following its recent world premiere at TIFF, is the first feature by leading contemporary visual artist Mark Lewis. Lastly, 21-87 (1964) by Arthur Lipsett, a major figure in 1960s experimental cinema, will be shown in “A Photographer’s Eye,” a 20-film retrospective dealing with the theme of the photographic image.
In addition, the NFB will be presenting the Magnus Isacsson Award alongside other community partners. And for Doc Circuit Montréal, the festival’s professional documentary market, the NFB will be taking part in a number of events and presenting an award at the Cuban Hat Pitch.
Full details on the interactive works produced or co-produced by the NFB and presented in RIDM’s UXdoc section will be forthcoming in the next few days. The November 16 world premiere of Olivier D. Asselin’s Pipelines, pouvoir et démocratie (Pipelines, Power and Democracy) (NFB) was announced on October 20. RIDM takes place from November 12 to 22, 2015.
Quick Facts
• Quiet Zone (14 min) – Quebec premiere
Directed by Karl Lemieux and David Bryant
Produced at the NFB by Julie Roy
Using complex imagery and sound, the filmmakers take us deep into the world of people who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Combining elements of documentary, film essay and experimental film, Quiet Zone defies genres, weaving together an unusual story in which image and sound distort reality to make the distress of these “wave refugees” palpable.
This is Karl Lemieux’s second collaboration with the NFB—following Mamori (2010), also produced by Julie Roy—and the first for David Bryant.
• Invention (87 min) – Quebec premiere
Directed by Mark Lewis
Invention is a Mark Lewis Studio production in co-production with the NFB and in association with Soda Film + Art. The producers are Eve Gabereau (Soda Film + Art), Gerry Flahive and Anita Lee (NFB), with Emily Morgan as co-producer (Soda Film + Art) and Anita Lee as the executive producer for the NFB.
Shot in Paris, São Paulo and Toronto, Invention is the first feature-length film by Mark Lewis. From famous corners of the Louvre Museum to the modernist buildings of Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil and Mies van der Rohe in Canada, Lewis takes us on a dynamic tour of fluctuating cityscapes, capturing the texture of these places, their landmarks, and the people who inhabit their streets and buildings, with images of glass, light, reflections, concrete, spiral staircases—and paintings. An homage to the City Symphony films of the 1920s, Invention offers a searching love letter to urban spaces, art and cinema.
Invention is Lewis’s second collaboration with the NFB, following Cold Morning: Trilogy (2009).
• 21-87 (1964, 10 min)
Directed by Arthur Lipsett
Produced at the NFB by Colin Low and Tom Daly
This brilliant and eclectic montage of people, faces and places offers a wry commentary on machine-dominated man, the man to whom nothing matters, who waits for Chance to call his number. A key work from one of Canada’s leading experimental filmmakers.
• Magnus Isacsson Award
For the fourth consecutive year, the NFB will join other community partners to present the Magnus Isacsson Award. The prize includes $5,000 worth of technical services from the NFB through its independent film support program, Aide au cinéma indépendant – Canada (ACIC). The award recognizes an emerging filmmaker who has made a socially engaged work.
• Doc Circuit Montréal
o At the Cuban Hat Pitch event of this important market for documentary film professionals, the NFB will award a prize of $5,000 in technical services through its ACIC program. The initiative provides Canadian filmmakers with collective support for their documentary projects.
o On Tuesday, November 17, several NFB professionals will take part in the One-on-One for Emerging Filmmakers event: Colette Loumède and Denis McCready, respectively executive producer and producer at the Documentary Studio, French Programming and Production; Annette Clarke and Katherine Baulu, respectively executive producer and producer at the Quebec Centre, English Programming and Production; and David Oppenheim, producer at the Ontario Centre.
o On Tuesday, November 18, Oppenheim will also take part in a breakfast talk entitled Finding Your Format, which examines how to find the best interactive concept for a story to be told, using various case studies as examples.
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Associated Links
Montreal International Documentary Festival
Mark Lewis Studio
Soda Film + Art
Magnus Isacsson Award
Doc Circuit Montréal
ACIC
Cuban Hat Pitch
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For Quiet Zone
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