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Béton Boréal
By
Mathieu QuirionDuration
20 MIN
Language
French
Subtitles
English
Country
Quebec
Year
2018
Synopsis
A meditation on the remnants of the Cold War, scattered in the forests of Haute-Mauricie (Canada): The Parent radar base, built to detect Soviet bombers descending from the pole ... His sister, Casey military airfield, to accommodate the interceptors to shoot them down ... gigantic structures ... that never served.
Direction
Mathieu Quirion
Once a drama writer-director-teacher, he is now neglecting Molière and Shakespeare in favor of Truffaut and Vertov. Living alone in a shack deep in the forest, the would-be hermit spends most of his free time writing and exploring his domain, camera in hand, in search of Thoreau’s marrow of life …
Music
Thomas Hodgson
Editing
Anatole Planteur
Author
Mathieu Quirion
Narration
Jocelyn Cloutier
