Lapse, 2011
HD / blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h01m48s / colour / no dialogue
2011
HD video
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Set to a soundtrack of percussive sounds, this surrealistic video captures the idiosyncratic movements of a swimmer in a restless bubble of water.
HD / blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h01m48s / colour / 2011 / no dialogue
Credits:
Director / videographer : micheline durocher
Camera : Yuri Berger
Editing : micheline durocher, rachel echenberg, anthu vu
Original music: narf, micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Post-production: anhtu vu
Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD
Country : Canada
PRIZES
2012 Official Selection/Compétition Internationale, Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux, Paris, France.
2011 Oboro/Laoun, Super Short Film Prize, finalist, Montreal, Canada.
PRESS
http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/experimental-film-the-focus-at-madrid-festival
oboro.net/archive/exhib1112/10_prix_laoun_oboro/info_en.html
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2012 Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux , Paris, France.
2012 14th Mecal International Short Film Festival, April 13-29, Barcelona, Spain.
2012 13th Rdeče zore / Red Dawns Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, March 7th and 10th 2012
2011 The Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tucson, USA.
2011 Laoun vitrine, Montreal, Canada.
Doppelgänger 2011
single channel video/ ooho4min15sec / bw / no dialogue / Canada / dvd / betacamSp
2011
HD video
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Doppelgänger conveys the theme of the uncanny, the double as shadow and fleeting residual image. It pursues culture’s persistent association of new electronic media with paranormal phenomena, technical obsolescence with nostalgia, anxiety and the erotic.
Doppelgänger
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h04m17s / colour/ 2011 / no dialogue
Credits
Director / videographer: micheline durocher
Camera : josé dupuis
Editor : micheline durocher, anhtu vu
Music / Sound : ancient robot music, micheline durocher
Post-production: anhtu vu
Performer: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD and HD
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2012 The Inevitable, 222Lodge Extern, “Doppelganger”, January 27, Dordrecht, Netherlands.
2012 Gallery 13, Toronto, Canada.
2011 Northside Film Festival, Williamsburg (NYC), USA.
2011 The MisALT Screening Series, Pornography and its discontents, San Francisco, USA.
Press
http://www.indiewire.com/article/brooklyns_northside_festival_announces_2011_lineup#
Electric Garden, 2011
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ no dialogue
2011
HD video
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In art, sleeping figures, especially nudes carry a strong erotic charge. For this video, I’ve filled the screen with close-ups of the feet, torso and face implying that the viewer is like a lover right next to the figure and able to touch her. Her reclining pose evokes sexual abandonment. In painting, for the most part, this genre is the province of male artists, and through this video I seek to create a reversal of this tradition.
As well, as a female artist enacting the reclining nude, I seek to claim full control over my self-image, as well as to counteract what has been historically in Western art considered the male hetero-gaze and to question current conceptions surrounding what has become a contentious characteristic of human experience.
Electric Garden
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ 2011 / no dialogue
credits:
director/videographer: micheline durocher
camera: josé dupuis
cast: micheline durocher
sound: micheline durocher
editing: rachel echenberg, yuri berger, micheline durocher, anhtu vu
post production : anhtu vu
format: filmed in mini-dv
2011 screenings
Arizona Underground Film Festival, Tuckson, USA, September 16-24.
MisAlt Series, Pornographers and its discontents, San Francisco, USA, July 28.
Lapse, 2007
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h01m48s / colour/no dialogue
Single channel video
© micheline durocher
Gearing up to perform, wearing a white retro bathing cap and silver eyelashes, the swimmer displays the sparkle of performance. As the music progresses, her set of precise choreographed movements feature elements of surprise and non sequitur. This video tends to exemplify the discrepancy between the ideal and the real. With humour, this work portraits a swimmer’s performance in a mode of synchronous idiosyncrasy. In this endurance based performative video, the performer’s awkward attempt to elevate her body to the ephemeral and glamorous grace found in Hollywood’s swimming movies of the 1940’s is touching and the pathos of aspiration it conveys brings the viewer perpetually back to the limitations of the human form. Credits Director, choreography : micheline durocher Camera : Yuri Berger Editing : micheline durocher, rachel echenberg Original music score and sound: narf, micheline durocher Performed by: micheline durocher Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD & betacam sp Country : Canada Length : 1 min 32 sec. MMVI Screenings 2011 Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece, 7-9 July. Art /Artifice: Weird Women and their DIY Doppelgangers, Galerie la Centrale, MUFF, Montreal, Canada,March 8. Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, May 6-8
Screenings
2010
MUFF, fundraiser event, Laïca, Montreal, April 12, 2010
Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria, 10-17 August
2008
Images et Nations, special MUFF program of shorts, Laïka, Montreal, Canada.
2007
Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montreal, Canada.
312 OnScreen, Memorial University, Corner Brook, Canada
M.U.F.F. , Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
Tabor Film Festival, Gornja Stubica, Croatia
Vox Feminae Fest, Zagreb, Croatia
Jerkin Paradise, Forest City Gallery, Spark video Canada, London, Canada
Spark Video Syracuse, Syracuse, New York
LadyFest, Toronto, Canada
Sydney Underground Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
Flash Flood, International Video Art Festival, Tucson, Arizona
Eye Level Gallery, “Rip Current” curated by Drifter Video, Halifax, Canada
This is not synchronized swimming , 2007
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / colour/ no dialogue
© Micheline Durocher 2007
Set to a soundtrack of percussive sounds, “This is not synchronised swimming” captures the movements of a swimmer out of water. Using a split-screen arrangement, humour and irony, the video conveys the disruptive and unruly potential of the performative body.
Credits:
Director and choreography: micheline durocher
Camera : yuri berger
Editing : micheline durocher, rachel echenberg
Sound : narf, micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD
Country : Canada MMVI
Length : 1min. 13 sec.
Screenings 2007
Spark Video Syracuse, Syracuse, NY. USA
Jerkin Paradise, Forest City Gallery, Spark video Canada, London, Canada
LadyFest, Toronto, Canada
Flash Flood, International Video Art Festival, Tucson, Arizona
Gallery Lambton, a Contemporary Video Art Screening, Sarnia, Canada
Eye Level Gallery, “Rip Current” curated by Drifter Video, Halifax, Canada
Publications
This is not synchronized swimming was featured in a special compilation DVD included in Matrix magazine, Issue 78, Montreal, Canada, Fall 2008.
Electric Garden, 2009
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ no dialogue
single channel video
© micheline durocher
Electric Garden is constructed upon one continuous pan of the edges and outlines of the female body and elicits the idea of the well established erotic theme in art, the reclining nude. Rendered in rich and vibrant colours, it transfers the imagery of the undressed observed reclining woman to a visual representation of woman’s own satisfaction.
Credits
Director / videographer: micheline durocher
Camera : josé dupuis
Editors : yuri berger, micheline durocher, rachel echenberg
Music / Sound : micheline durocher, narf
Performer: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in min-dv, transferred to DVD and BetacamSP
Length : 3 min 30 sec. 2009
Screenings :
Rendez-vous du cinema québécois, 2009
Montreal Underground Film Festival
Inspired by the autobiography of Goethe, Doppelgänger conveys the uncanny feeling of being confronted with your double coming toward you.
… and here one of the most singular forebodings took possession of me.. I saw my own figure coming toward me, attired in a dress which I had never worn… it was pike-gray, with somewhat of gold. As soon as I shook myself out of this dream, the figure had entirely disappeared. It is strange, however, eight years afterward, I found myself on the very road, to pay one more visit to her, in the dress of which I had dreamed, and which I wore, not from choice, but by accident. (Truth and Fiction, Goethe)
Credits
Director / videographer: micheline durocher
Camera : josé dupuis
Editor : micheline durocher
Original soundtrack : ancient robot music
Performer: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in min-dv, transferred to DVD and BetacamSp
Screenings Doppelgänger version 1 :
2009 MUFF, Montréal, Canada, May 14-16,
2010 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Montréal, Canada, 17-27 February
2010 Festival 600, Ljubljana, Slovenia, , 26-28 May
2010 Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, 20-28 August
2010 Spooky Movie International Film Festival, Washington DC, 21 to 25 October
Doppelgänger / 2009 / ooho4min15sec / bw / no dialogue / Canada / dvd / betacamSp
This recent experimental video is inspired by the autobiography of Goethe, conveying the uncanny feeling of being confronted with your double coming toward you.
… and here one of the most singular forebodings took possession of me.. I saw my own figure coming toward me, attired in a dress which I had never worn… it was pike-gray, with somewhat of gold. As soon as I shook myself out of this dream, the figure had entirely disappeared. It is strange, however, eight years afterward, I found myself on the very road, to pay one more visit to her, in the dress of which I had dreamed, and which I wore, not from choice, but by accident. (Truth and Fiction, Goethe)
Matchstick, 2006
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / colour/ no dialogue
Single channel video
© micheline durocher
Constructed around a soundtrack of burning matches, Matchstick is a poetic meditation on memory, desire, and Hans Christian Anderson’s Little Matchstick Girl. The video finds visual pleasure in the play of light and darkness, blurring and fragmenting images while it develops its central theme: memory, the impossibility of truly remembering and the construction of desire through video editing techniques.
Credits:
Director / videographer : micheline durocher
Camera : Jose Dupuis
Editing : micheline durocher, rachel echenberg
Sound : narf, micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD
Country : Canada
Length : 3 min. 27 sec. MMVI
Screenings 2007
M.U.F.F. , Montreal, Canada
LadyFest, Toronto, Canada
Antimatter, Victoria, Canada
L’étreinte, The Embrace, 2005
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ 20 / no dialogue
Single channel video
© micheline durocher
An intimate self-portrait shot in bed that skirts the lines of voyeurism to capture delicate moments, quiet gestures and fleeting solitude.
Credits
Director / videographer : micheline durocher
Camera : micheline durocher
Editing : micheline durocher, rachel echenberg
Sound : micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Format: filmed in mini-dv, transferred to DVD
Country : Canada
Length : 5 min 10 sec. MMV
Screenings
2007, LadyFest, Toronto, Canada
2007, Images, Toronto, Canada.
2006, Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria, Canada.
2006, M.U.F.F., Montreal Underground Film Festival, Montreal, Canada.
2005 Bedrooms, Rooftops, and sidewalks (a Public Film Screening), Montreal, Canada.
Syncope, 2004
HD/ blu-ray / Betacam SP / DVD / MOV / 00h03m00s / colour/ 20 / no dialogue
Single channel video
© micheline durocher
Through speech acts the video Syncope explores the relationship of language to the body, and enactment as a basic condition for human interaction.
It is a self-filmed video showing myself as a reader moving to the rhythm of the turning pages of a book titled Exercises de français (French language exercises). The movement of the body is illogical and nonsensical – it resides in the strange in-between space of wanting to read and being in language. This video is constructed upon a short loop extracted from a high-8 tape which was then expanded through repetition and experimental editing techniques.
Credits
Director/ videographer : Micheline Durocher
Camera : micheline durocher
Editing : micheline durocher, yuri berger, monique moumblow
Sound : micheline durocher
Performed by: micheline durocher
Format : filmed in High 8 transferred to DVD
Year: 2004
Length: 3 min. 30 sec.
Screenings of “Syncope”
2007 LadyFest, Toronto, Canada
2007 Flashflood, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
2006 “Prescription” and “diagnosticians’, Headcheese Sandwich., Forest City Gallery, London, Canada.
2006 SWGC Art Gallery, contemporary film and Video festival, Memorial University, sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NL, Canada, 2006
2005 “Pixel Dance Video Festival”, Thalassa, Greece
2005 “Bedrooms, Rooftops, and Sidewalks” , a Public Film Screening, Montreal, Canada
2005 ‘Motion, Feminist Film Festival, ( ) ette Collective, Lethbridge, Canada
Internet:
312 on Screen, http://www.312.ca , February and March 2006.
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